Samuel Huntington
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 2)
In the second of three posts, the author proposes ‘liberal conservatism’ to protect India’s civilisational heritage within a liberal democracy, arguing that Fukuyama’s end of history failed while Huntington’s civilisational…
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What is a civilization?
Reflecting on what a civilisation is, the author finds Huntington’s emphasis on religion persuasive for South Asia, citing Peter Turchin’s view of higher religion as a meta-ethnic identity, while arguing…
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Map of Civilizations
Prompted by a world map labelling countries in local scripts, the author finds Huntington’s equation of civilisations with religions too blunt and cites Mises on how language and dialect, as…
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Islam at her Greatest
X.T.M shares an Instagram map and calls the decline of Islam since 1492 the great story of the age, recalling Huntington’s maxim that Islam has bloody borders.
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Is there anything intrinsically attractive about Western Civ
X.T.M, starting from a 17th-century Siamese court’s interest in French science, asks whether Western civilisation has intrinsic appeal, argues Huntington was proved right over Fukuyama’s end of history, and compares…
