Jesus Christ, Mohammad and Gautam Buddha were all Asians. It is interesting that the West has got its religions from... [MORE]

Dev

Mar 23, 2008 12:59

Of course, Pagden is very simplistic. Nor do I see any reason to compare the relatively benign Persian Empire --which... [MORE]

Elliott A Green

Mar 22, 2008 19:41

Thank you for writing this article. Everytime someone claims "the EAST" is pitted against "the WEST", I get so grated... [MORE]

Daniel

Mar 21, 2008 18:26

It is not just the different between india, arab region, eastern asia there is also a big difference between even... [MORE]

esraa ahmed

Mar 24, 2008 10:26

When Adam Kirsch concludes by beating Padgen with the club of Western slave trade and the Holocaust, we know he... [MORE]

Doug McMillan

Mar 21, 2008 12:38

It is an aberration of the 'civilized' mind to create false dichotomies based on make-believe abstract categories, i.e., 'East' and... [MORE]

SDG

Mar 21, 2008 11:26

When Kipling said East and west are on different polar he want to tell that West's philosophy and India's philosophy... [MORE]

Ramesh Raghuvanshi

Mar 21, 2008 02:33

The longtime attempts of often scurrilous authors to paint the West, particularly during any era of conflict, as the exclusive... [MORE]

Caleb Carr

Mar 20, 2008 19:30

C. Northcote Parkinson, the author of Parkinson's Law, wrote a fine book on the same subject, called East and West.... [MORE]

Graham Asher

Mar 20, 2008 11:37

Iran's first election is for religious extremists. Seems the same as 2000 yrs ago. [MORE]

don

Mar 20, 2008 19:31

The author seems to be unaware of the fact that both East and West--Europe and the Middle East, which Kipling... [MORE]

RBC

Mar 20, 2008 08:35

Readers may wonder why this "2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West" startswith Greek sources. The Bible offers narratives of earlier... [MORE]

Don Phillipson

Mar 20, 2008 08:32

The next lines of Kipling's 'Ballad of East and West', run like this: "... But there is neither East... [MORE]

ferengi

Mar 20, 2008 08:00

Kipling was right when stated that philosophy, way of life are polar between India and West..He refered India versus West....

Ramesh Raghuvanshi

Mar 20, 2008 03:15

The attempt to read much of human history as conflict between East and West is as Adam Kirsch points out... [MORE]

Shalom Freedman

Mar 19, 2008 03:29

Is there a single West standing opposed to a single East? No, there are multiple wests, overlappingly in various states... [MORE]

Bill

Mar 19, 2008 22:32