If you are ready to plunk down a cool ninety bucks (of which I get none, in case you were wondering), you can get a copy of fascinating new book, Debating the War of Ideas, edited by Eric D. Patterson and John Gallagher, and just out from Palgrave Macmillan. It contains a genuine spectrum of opinion, featuring chapters by Walid Phares, Bassam Tibi, our old friend Raymond Ibrahim, the smooth non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong, the smooth Muslim Islamic apologist Akbar Ahmed, and others. My essay “Dissonance and Denial: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War of Ideas” is chapter sixteen, the book’s closing chapter.
And may the best ideas win!