Germany and Indonesia certainly have a radical Islam problem. Stymieing
the construction of mosques here is a surefire way to create one in the
U.S. as well.
America has at times oriented itself to the East, at others to the West. But what we have always had is a sense of our manifest destiny. And now the ideals of California—nihilism with a suntan—seem to be our primary ideological export.
This consciousness of cultural mission affected French writers, giving them a comforting idea of their own importance. For their message was not restricted to purely aesthetic impressions.
