Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Words of Wisdom

"Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West."


So writes the French novelist and essayist Pascal Bruckner, Daniel Pipes informs us, in his book La tyrannie de la pénitence (2006), capably translated into English by Steven Rendall and recently published by Princeton University Press as The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism.

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