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Noted Elsewhere: The Ramadan complex.

By MICHAEL WEISS [Arma Virumque | New Criterion] – Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals may only recapitulate much of what’s been said and screamed over the Western intelligentsia’s embrace of the charismatic Islamist Tariq Ramadan and and its wincing alienation of the atheist feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, but if that’s all it does, it’ll be enough. Friendships and intellectual alliances are still being broken over which side a certain novelist or poet or essayist took during the Cold War. Ours is nothing if not a century of acceleration that, not a decade in, we’re already tallying up the scorecard for les clercs when it comes to the new ideological struggle.

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