Arguments: Andrew F. March and Paul Berman on The Flight of the Intellectuals and Tariq Ramadan
Arguments: Andrew F. March and Paul Berman on The Flight of the Intellectuals and Tariq Ramadan
Arguments Part 1: Andrew F. March and Paul Berman
THIS APRIL saw the publication of Dissent editorial board member Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals, a “searing examination into the intellectual atmosphere of the moment” examining “how some of the West’s best thinkers and journalists have fumbled badly in their effort to grapple with Islamist ideas and violence.” In the book, Berman criticizes, among others, Tariq Ramadan, chair of Islamic Studies at Oxford, and his intellectual supporters.
In the following debate, Yale associate professor of political science Andrew F. March offers criticism of Berman’s characterization of Ramadan in The Flight of the Intellectuals. Berman responds here.
Homepage Photo: Tariq Ramadan (Joshua Sherurcij, 2009 / Wikimedia Commons)
