April 09, 2006
HOMEWORK: CRISIS IN EUROPE
Bruce Bawer, author of While Europe Slept, has a long piece in Hudson Review that's worth printing out & reading. "Crisis in Europe" is his experience of moving to Amsterdam in 1998, expecting a liberal, uh, Mecca, & instead finding a city & a continent that was rapidly fracturing along cultural fault lines between secular liberalism & medieval Islam. And no one wanted to talk about it. Crisis in Europe
Posted by Jeff at April 9, 2006 04:07 PM
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Bawer is a great writer; 10 times the thinker Andrew Sullivan ever was. His "A Place at the Table" (1993) should be required reading. He describes himself as a classical liberal yet was derided as "right-wing" for daring to suggest that gay ≠promiscuous moonbat
Posted by: Attmay at April 9, 2006 07:16 PM
