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# Pankaj MishraBland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Spicy observations
  

*by H***Z on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2021*

History can be told in many forms and many versions of all the main historical events from the Siege of Constantinople to the shores of Dunkirk. Yet some facts are stubborn, and no matter which one looks, those facts present their true faces. One such fact is that the world today is the direct consequence of colonialism. All the subjugation, exploitation, nationalism, and struggles for independence are interconnected. There are, however, aspects of all that which are subject to dispute, sometimes cordial and scholarly, sometimes with sting and venom. The ‘lesser culprits of history’ – those ‘bland fanatics’ of the West, Pankaj observes, have reincarnated themselves as liberal internationalists, neocon democracy promoters, and free market globalisers’. This book is a collection of essays from 2011 to 2019 presenting aspects of the way these new bland fanatics ‘blunder through a world grown more complex and intractable’ – unravelling their former colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America, and now, ‘sowing political chaos in their own societies’. In one, Pankaj describes how whiteness turned into a religion, and how that religion has become ‘the world’s most dangerous cult today’. In these brilliant 211 pages of sharp, often caustic observations not only of the fanatics, but those they oppress or hope to continue to oppress, and also the observations of other observers, Pankaj reminds the reader that the only way to avoid getting re-trapped, is to see through the bluster, the faux praise, and the hypocrisy of the fanatics in search of their own glorious past – a past in which the rest were the voiceless supporting cast. Acutely sensitive to racism, Pankaj is not a racist (though he had been threatened by Niall Fergusson with a libel suit for being called a racist by Pankaj) and he has an essay in this book entitled, ‘Why do White People Like What I Write’? which explains why White people like what Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, perhaps as a mirror of why they like what Pankaj writes – and why not? Wit, wisdom and learning should be appreciated by everyone.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Grea
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2020*

Very impressive and cogent discussion of our crisis.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Bland Radicalism
  

*by T***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2021*

I am afraid I got very little from this book of previously published journalism.  I have sympathy with many of the author's ideas.  However, I found that he had very little himself to add to the arguments and just recycled over and over the same ideas.  As is the case with many polemicists, one found oneself reading the author's criticism of another author's summary of opinions in the area concerned.  So one is not reading primary or secondary material, but tertiary or quaternary ideas that have been so well masticated that they have lost all substance.I do not recommend this book and I will not be rushing to read the author's other books or even his journalism.

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