Paul Berman’s outraged attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s attackers. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine

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Read the entire thing. Postmodernist relativism hath removed the vigour…

In any case, Berman's portrait of the behavior of today's intellectuals when confronting the plight of Ayaan Hirsi Ali is devastating. I was going to say his portrait of certain intellectuals, because he singles out the well-respected writers Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash for their aggressive sniping and snarking at Hirsi Ali when she was and still is under threat of death. But in fact the relative silence of the rest of the intelligentsia, when confronted with the threats against her, is almost more scandalous.

via Paul Berman’s outraged attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s attackers. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine.

Or to paraphrase Lewis, we have made the intellectuals eunuchs, now we ask them to breed.

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