Books by Edward Luce
Found 3 books
15. India: Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India . Or India , by Michael Wood.
I’ll be interviewing Ed on June 13, 6-8 p.m., GMU Arlington campus, including about his new and very interesting book The Retreat of Western Liberalism . Ed is also “chief American commentator” for The Financial Times , and author of one of the best general introductions to India, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India . Here is Ed’s Wikipedia page . Here are event details .
It was a forty-minute chat (podcast, no transcript), most of all about the decline of liberalism, based around Ed’s new and very well-received book The Retreat of Western Liberalism . We also covered what a future liberalism will look like, to what extent current populism is an Anglo-American phenomenon, Modi’s India, whether Kubrick, Hitchcock, and John Lennon are overrated or underrated, and what it is like to be a speechwriter for Larry Summers, among other topics. Here is the opening bit:
I’ll be interviewing Ed on June 13, 6-8 p.m., GMU Arlington campus, including about his new and very interesting book The Retreat of Western Liberalism . Ed is also “chief American commentator” for The Financial Times , and author of one of the best general introductions to India, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India . Here is Ed’s Wikipedia page . Here are event details .
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent , by Edward Luce. Here is his recent essay , related to the book.