Jaitley's review of "Bland fanatics" is very nice. Incidentally, I also read this book and posted a review on "Goodreads". My response was in the same vein. I wrote
"The problem with the writings of Mishra, Arundhati Roy, etc., is that they articulate their discontentment well. But they have no solution to offer. They can’t even name a country where their dream is at work, even remotely."
His problem is that he is extremely allergic to the Anglo-American" exclusivism of the Neil Ferguson type.
As Jaitley rightly said, Liberalism accepts the state but wants it to intervene when there is a market failure.
My sense is that Mishra is a liberal but is reluctant to accept it.
Jaitley's review of "Bland fanatics" is very nice. Incidentally, I also read this book and posted a review on "Goodreads". My response was in the same vein. I wrote
"The problem with the writings of Mishra, Arundhati Roy, etc., is that they articulate their discontentment well. But they have no solution to offer. They can’t even name a country where their dream is at work, even remotely."
His problem is that he is extremely allergic to the Anglo-American" exclusivism of the Neil Ferguson type.
As Jaitley rightly said, Liberalism accepts the state but wants it to intervene when there is a market failure.
My sense is that Mishra is a liberal but is reluctant to accept it.