The Flight of the Intellectuals
“An intellectual thriller in the form of a polemic, with Inspector Berman hunting  for clues... Maybe Berman's book will start intellectuals talking, and not just about  each other. Maybe some of the previously silent will begin to speak out against the  death squads rather than snark about their victims and targets.”—Ron Rosenbaum,Slate"Fascinating... This bracing and volatile book is an important one and devastating  in its conclusions."—Dwight Garner,The New York Times"Paul Berman is, just like  me and I think many others, surprised—and that’s an understatement—that some liberals  choose to defend ideas that are very illiberal and choose to look away from practices  that are even more illiberal. Why are they excusing radical Islam? That fascinates  Berman and it also fascinates me, what the presence of Islam does to the liberal  psyche in the West."—Ayaan Hirsi Ali,Maclean's"It has been quite astonishing  to see how far and how fast there has been a capitulation to the believable threat  of violence.... I join with Paul Berman in expressing utter astonishment at this  phenomenon, or rather at the way that it is not a phenomenon."—Christopher Hitchens“Berman… has a fair claim to being regarded as the Benda of our time. InThe Flight of the Intellectualshe continues his work of redeeming the good name of intellectuals by exposing the corrupt among them.”—Anthony Julius,New York Times Book Review “How do you distinguish a jihadist from a ‘moderate’ Muslim? Paul Berman'sFlight of the Intellectualsbrilliantly dissects the moral confusion and cowardice that contrives to sway some brave men and women. Must reading for our times.”—Harold Evans,Daily Beast “Brilliant, uncompromising.”—Michael Young,SlatePraise for Paul Berman“One of our most gifted essayists, a deeply pensive writer  with a lyrical talent for imaginative synthesis.”—The Boston Globe“One of America’ s best exponents of recent intellectual history.”—The Economist