Conservative columnist Ross Douthat suggests that, to understand Trump’s rise, we look not to novels like Sinclair’s “It Can Happen Here” and Roth’s “Plot against America” and instead turn to works by French novelist Michel Houellebecq. These helps us understand the crisis of Western liberalism, which Douthat sees as the major culprit.
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Did Western Liberalism Give Us Trump?
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ISIS and the Grand Inquisitor
Dostoevsky may provide a compelling explanation for the recruiting success of ISIS: young people want to escape from freedom.
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