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Lee Harris is the author of the critically acclaimed The Suicide of Reason and Civilization and Its Enemies. A frequent contributor to Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Atlantis, and The Wall Street Journal, he has become one of the most sought-after commentators on the post-9/11 epoch. mehr anzeigen He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia. weniger anzeigen

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Lee Harris entered Emory University at age fourteen and graduated summa cum laude. After years spent pursuing diverse interests, including a stint at divinity school, several years writing mystery novels, and a career as a glazier, he began writing philosophical articles that captured the imagination of readers all over the world. The author of three of the most controversial and widely shared pieces in the history of Policy Review, Harris has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers of recent times. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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Unlike those who see the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as the outbreak of a new war between radical Muslims and modern Americans, Harris views those attacks as the decisive reemergence of an ancient cultural conflict stretching back to Sparta and Rome. Elaborating on three controversial articles originally appearing in Policy Review, Harris argues that terrorists struck against the U.S. not so much to wage war as to act out the histrionic script of a fantasy ideology in which religious zealotry enforces the kind of cruel tribal conformity that daring Greek and Roman thinkers long ago challenged. Though this ideology is astonishingly disconnected from economic and political realities, Harris warns that it holds real-world peril for the residents of a cosmopolitan civilization premised on freedom and tolerance. Indeed, Harris perceives profound peril for sophisticated intellectuals addicted to their own fantasies incubated not in religious fervor but rather in amnesiac utopianism. Many may complain that Harris demonizes foes he has not fully understood, but others will welcome his vigorous if contentious voice in a critically important policy debate. - ALA Booklist… (mehr)
 
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rsutto22 | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 15, 2021 |
I learned a lot and it helped me understand the world better. I don't agree with where the author takes his reasoning in the end.
 
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Paul_S | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2020 |
another book I refuse to waste precious time reading.
I suppose he was trying to appeal to both sides of the political pendulum? He failed in my eyes.
I stopped on page 7 when he typed, "the obama death panel is a myth - but it is a myth that expresses a genuine anxiety that decisions over our lives and deaths could one day end up being made for us and not by us."
He's either ignorant or lying.
by the way; the fifteen member panel seat are still empty. hopefully they'll remain empty, but the socialist obamacare and the death panel need to be repealed.… (mehr)
 
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VhartPowers | Dec 27, 2018 |
The author attempts to justify outright bigotry and racism by glorifying American military imperialism and labeling every Muslim on the planet as our "enemy". This book was incredibly disappointing.
 
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jimocracy | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 18, 2015 |

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