{"product_id":"bland-fanatics-liberals-race-and-empire-9781250800183","title":"Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBland Fanatics\u003c\/i\u003e, Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant establishment discourses of our times. In essays that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and \"humanitarian\" war, Mishra confronts writers such as Jordan Peterson, Niall Ferguson, and Salman Rushdie. He describes the doubling down of an intelligentsia against a background of weakening Anglo-American hegemony, and he explores the commitments of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the ideological determinations of \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e. These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250800183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"Pankaj Mishra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40941972455605,"sku":"9781250800183","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0ce2b5db-2cae-4d6d-aa06-37c1859b868d.jpg?v=1630995264","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bland-fanatics-liberals-race-and-empire-9781250800183","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}