Christopher Lasch's books were deeply foresightful, - predicting the Me-centered problems Posted: Sep 11th, 2018 - 2:53 am In Reply to: To most people history begins when they were born. - They don't really bother to
of today some 30 or more years ago. The list could also have included the foreign policy "realist school" scholar Samuel Huntington, who a decade before 9/11 accurately predicted the "Clash of Civilizations" (his book by that title) that we are undergoing between Islam, the secular West, radical Marxism, communism and Christianity.
These asymmetrical wars are neither constrained by national borders nor are they being fought conventionally. And although he was more of an entertainer than scholar, the journalist/novelist Tom Wolfe was deeply insurrectionist in the salons of New York City.
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