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The Clash of Civilizations

If Books Could Kill

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The Future of the World Is Identity Politics

The future of the world is identity politics. So we need to pick ours and I choose white. A lot of these complaints are symptoms of a liberalizing culture. Things like divorce rates. You're Samuel Huntington and that's your concern, then perhaps check out divorce rates in the Muslim world. Right. The bottom line is that a lot of the complaints about like the Islamic world are complaints about these particularly conservative elements of the Islamic world. And to see conservatives make them on one hand and then also make the case for the rise of those conservative elements in their own society, it's transparent.

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