The New Criterion reviews The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, by Roger Scruton:

It is often said, and rightly, that the West is the cradle of political freedom. When asked what we are fighting for in the war against terrorism, we say we are fighting to preserve freedom. This is true, but it is not wholly true, for, as Scruton points out, freedom unchecked is ultimately a self-consuming passion. Freedom animates civilization. But understood as the emancipation from restraint, freedom can also appear as the enemy of civilization, for civilization requires restraints. Hence the familiar paradox that freedom, if it is to flourish, requires definition, which means limitation and direction—unfreedom, if you will. This is not to deny the great, the inestimable value of freedom. It is simply to say that freedom cannot be rightly pursued in isolation from the ends that ennoble it.

And Salon reviews a new book on globalization by Yale Law professor Amy Chua. Her title certainly isn't one of those annoyingly vague ones. The book is called World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.

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