Crushing on Crushers by Theodore Dalrymple

Crushing on Crushers by Theodore Dalrymple

Though Hollander does not claim that there is a single explanation for intellectuals’ attraction to dictatorships such as those of Stalin, Mao, and Castro (or Khomeini, in the case of Foucault), let alone to have found it, he nevertheless believes, in my view plausibly, that the longing for quasi-religious belief in an age when actual religion has largely been rejected is a significant part of the explanation. 

One of my favorite thinkers on an important topic.