March 23, 2007
Defining the Indefinable West
A secular Jew, a child of London, an adult of New York and now California, I am a product of the West. Or at least I like to think I am. There are certain values and tools of inquiry that I use that seem to come out of a Western heritage. There are ideals and political systems that I believe in, and that I know groups like Al Qaeda — which define themselves at least in part in direct opposition to those concepts — detest. There are organizing models for societies that I
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