The Only Super Power
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The Only Super Power

Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Only Super Power

Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism

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In The Only Superpower: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism, Paul Hollander examines anti-Americanism (including the relationship between the foreign and domestic varieties), American culture (especially mass culture), the lingering political and cultural influences of the 1960s, and the controversial relationship between the realms of the personal and the political. He also revisits the part played by hatred, and especially the scapegoating impulse, in social and political conflicts. The essays range widely, from Michael Moore's political celebrity, the American love for SUVs, and getting old in America to Islamic fanaticism and the aftermath of the fall of Eastern European communist systems.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: The Pleasures of Hate and the New Anti-Americanism
  4. Part 1. THE NEW ANTI-AMERICAN
  5. Chapter 01. Anti-Americanism and a World-Class Hate Crim
  6. Chapter 02. Anti-Americanism:Murderous and Rhetorical
  7. Chapter 03. The Politics of Envy
  8. Chapter 04. Anti-Americanism and Moral Equivalence
  9. Part 2. AMERICANA
  10. Chapter 05. Our Society and Its Celebrities
  11. Chapter 06. Watching Celebrities
  12. Chapter 07. Michael Moore: The New Political Celebrity
  13. Chapter 08. SUVs and Americans
  14. Chapter 09. The Chronic Ailments of Television News
  15. Chapter 10. Stereotyping and the Decline of Common Sense
  16. Chapter 11. Tawana Brawley and the “Exotic Dancer” at Duke
  17. Chapter 12. An Islamic Requirement on Campus
  18. Chapter 13. Rehabilitating the Great Books: Literature and Life
  19. Chapter 14. The Counterculture of the Heart
  20. Chapter 15. Old and Busier Than Ever
  21. Part 3. FOREIGN MATTERS
  22. Chapter 16. American Travelers to the Soviet Union
  23. Chapter 17. Alexander Yakovlev
  24. Chapter 18. Violence of Higher Purpose
  25. Chapter 19. The North Korean Gulag
  26. Chapter 20. Admiring North Korea
  27. Chapter 21. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution
  28. Chapter 22. Crossing the Moral Threshold: The Rejection of Communist Systems in Eastern Europe
  29. Chapter 23. Ambivalent in Amsterdam
  30. Chapter 24. Travel in the Peloponnesos
  31. Part 4. THE SURVIVAL ANDREPLENISHMENT OF THE ADVERSARY CULTU
  32. Chapter 25. The Resilience of the Adversary Culture
  33. Chapter 26. The Chomsky Phenomenon
  34. Chapter 27. The Banality of Evil and the Political Culture of Hatred
  35. Chapter 28. The Left and the Palestinians
  36. Chapter 29. The Personal and the Political in Lessing’s Fiction
  37. Chapter 30. Haven in Cuba
  38. Chapter 31. Demystifying Marxism
  39. Chapter 32. Public Intellectuals and the God That Failed
  40. Part 5. IN CONCLUSION
  41. Chapter 33. From a “Builder of Socialism” to“ Free-Floating Intellectual”: My Politically Incorrect Career in Sociology
  42. Index
  43. About the Author