Category: Disputations

COMMENTS ON WHY DO WE DIFFER?

The November 2013 issue of Hungarian Review carried a stimulating article under the above title by James C. Bennett and Michael Lotus, based on researches of historical anthropology. However its argument has some weaknesses. To begin with, it has a tendency towards monocausality, reducing everything to a single factor (family

A REJOINDER TO GEORGE SCHÖPFLIN

We are grateful to George Schöpflin for his thoughtful response to our article: America, England, Europe: Why Do We Differ? But he makes some criticisms that seem to us to be based upon a misunderstanding of our argument. Is it a fair criticism, for instance, to say that the article