A conversation with Paul Berman about totalitarianism and liberalism

with Paul Berman
in Current Affairs, Books
on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 * * * * *

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A conversation with the Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute Paul Berman, about his book "Terror and Liberalism", which states that the success of totalitarian movements came out of liberalism's failure after WWI.

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    1. robertg  08/19/2010 10:21 PM Report

      There's a ridiculous essentialism to Berman's thinking, which basically amounts to carte blanche for military intervention in the Middle East. "We should consider ourselves at war with muslim totalitarianism." The subtext: invade Iraq. To treat as one, as "deeply the same," different militant groups responding to very different contexts (often, if we're honest, a context of injustice) in different countries, is to embark on an ideological crusade; in its absolutism, it is deeply illiberal, and quite sinister.