Menace in Europe · Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too by Berlinski, Claire -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Epigraph CHAPTER 1 - EUROPE ON FIVE DOLLARS A DAY AND A FLAMETHROWER

THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED BLACKMAILED BY HISTORY HOPELESSNESS AND THE VOID IT’S OUR PROBLEM

CHAPTER 2 - SELF-EXTINGUISHING TOLERANCE

BARGAINING WITH DEPRAVITY OH, UNBELIEVING FUNDAMENTALISTS: THE MURDER OF THEO VAN GOGH THE NEW ORDERING PRINCIPLE OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY THE NIHILIST ASSASSIN RETURNS

CHAPTER 3 - WHITE TEETH

THE SOCIOECONOMIC GROWTH MEDIUM CHEERFUL MULTICULTURALISM: THE FICTION THE CHEERLESS REALITY “AN HONORARY WHITE MAN” THE BITTER EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATION ASSIMILATION IS DEATH A DIET FOR THE SPIRITUALLY FLABBY CORRUPTION, GHETTOIZATION, AND A PERVASIVE SENSE OF UNFAIRNESS THE GREAT SATAN’S SECRET WEAPON TOO MUCH BLOODY HISTORY HOW TO RAISE A GOOD LITTLE EUROPEAN WHY AMERICA SUCCEEDS WHERE BRITAIN FAILS WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR US? THE ANTI-AMERICANISM OF BRITISH INTELLECTUALS

CHAPTER 4 - THE HOPE OF MARSEILLE

MARSEILLE: THE EXCEPTIONAL CITY “IN MARSEILLE WE GET ALONG” LIKE NO OTHER CITY MARSEILLE’S GIFT A DELICATE BALANCE CO-OPTING THE MODERATES: EUROPE’S ONLY HOPE

CHAPTER 5 - WE SURRENDER!

WHETTING THE ALLIGATOR’S APPETITE

CHAPTER 6 - NO PAST, NO FUTURE, NO WORRIES

“ITALIANS HAVE, YOU KNOW, BEEN AROUND FOREVER” THE LOSS OF A VISION ARE THE AXIS POWERS PUNISHING THEMSELVES?

CHAPTER 7 - BLACK-MARKET RELIGION: THE NINE LIVES OF JOSÉ BOVÉ

THE FIRST LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ THE DARK ANGEL OF THE ANTIGLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT THE SECOND LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ THE MODERN PROPHET OF CROP WORSHIP A PERENNIAL EUROPEAN PERSONALITY THE THIRD LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ A FAMILIAR TASTE FOR VANDALISM AND VIOLENCE THE FOURTH LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ RITUAL, RELATIONSHIP, FAMILY, LOVE, TRADITION THE FIFTH LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ THE GREAT EUROPEAN AFFLICTION THE SIXTH LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ BRINGING MEANING TO AN INDIFFERENT UNIVERSE THE SEVENTH LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ THE EIGHTH LIFE OF JOSÉ BOVÉ THE ENDURING LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL MILLENARIANISM THE CLASSIC TROPE OF THE MILLENNIAL CULTS MON DIEU UTOPIA

CHAPTER 8 - BLACK-MARKET NATIONALISM: I HATE

INHERITORS OF THE GERMAN MUSICAL TRADITION SPEAKING TO THE HEART A FAMILIAR SCENE JUST DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY “WHAT’S NATURALLY IN THE MUSIC IS WHAT MAKES IT SO GERMAN” “THESE THINGS START BUBBLING UP” POWER, PATHOLOGY, AND PAYBACK SO HARD, SO DARK, SO EVIL A NATION AT WAR WITH ITS FORBIDDEN IMPULSES A LITTLE GAME THAT IS NOT A LOVE SONG NOT EUROPEAN—GERMAN DOESN’T EVERY FAMILY HAVE ONE LIKE THAT? THAT’S RIGHT, THE NAZI MANNER THE PERSISTENCE OF NATIONAL PERSONALITY

CHAPTER 9 - TO HELL WITH EUROPE

THE THIN VENEER OF GAITY REVERSION BY DEFAULT A BLIND BALANCE OF POWER THE LONG WITHDRAWING WHIMPER

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