Turning Back the Clock - Hot Wars and Media Populism

Another collection of nimble, teasing, brilliant and infuriating little essays and essaylets from Eco... After the Cold War, the Hot War has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's Great Game, we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the 19th century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing goverments predominate. It almost seems as if history, tired of the big steps forward it has taken in the past two millennia, has gone into reverse...