For the better part of 30 years, since the Indian-born writer Pankaj Mishra’s essays began appearing in English-language periodicals such as the/New York Review of Books/, he has been sharpening an extraordinary critique of liberalism that grows more relevant with each passing year.
In 2006, he published/Temptations of the West/, a series of on-the-ground dispatches from India, Pakistan, and Tibet. Six years later, his shrewd—and, for many Western readers, including myself, revelatory—book/From the Ruins of Empire/charted the revolts against Western imperialism across Asia, from Turkey to China. Mishra followed that in 2017 with the widely lauded book/Age of Anger/, which traces the intellectual foundations of the worldwide backlash against modernity that characterizes Trumpism and terrorist organizations such as ISIS.
His latest books of essays,/Bland Fanatics/, which collects writings published mostly in the 2010s, focuses on the failures of Western liberalism, its mainstream media, and the bankruptcy of its most revered intellectuals. We spoke with Mishra on the occasion of the book about liberalism in disrepute, the lessons of Antonio Gramsci, and the usefulness of certain literary styles.
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