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The Intellectual Origins Of
America-Bashing
By Lee Harris
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 specter haunts
the world, and that specter is America. This is not the
America discoverable in the pages of a world atlas, but a
mythical America that is the target of the new form of
anti-Americanism that Salman Rushdie, writing in the
Guardian (February 6, 2002), says
“is presently taking the world by storm” and that forms the
subject of a Washington Post essay by Martin Kettle
significantly entitled “U.S. Bashing: It’s All The Rage In
Europe” (January 7, 2002). It is an
America that Anatol Lieven assures us, in a recent article in
the London Review of Books, is nothing less than “a
menace to itself and to mankind” and that Noam Chomsky has
repeatedly characterized as the world’s major terrorist
state.
But above all it is the America that is responsible for the
evils of the rest of the world. As Dario Fo, the winner of the
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