Thanks, I'll be looking for it...
Berlinsky is an American (a rather fetching looking one, too, I might add -- quite beautiful) who has spent a great deal of her time out of country. Now she is said to divide her time between Paris and Turkey. She is a keen observer, and extraordinarily fair-minded and forthright. She goes over Europe country-by-country; finds signs of hope in Marseilles, and reason for despair in Hamburg. She concludes that European unity is an illusion....
Berlinsky picks up on a theme that you know I follow, from Voegelin: the impact of gnostic movements in human history, and the "second realities" they establish. Check out especially what she has to say about the various incarnations of "Jose Bove" -- an established historical "type" by now it would seem. The current holder of the "Jose Bove" chair is a crafty French sheep farmer who claims to be a non-political anti-globalist (now there's an oxymoron!), and so has been sainted by Green parties everywhere. I gather he put on a really big show at the WTO meeting in Seattle not too long ago....
An extraordinarily interesting, far-ranging, and perceptive book, IMHO. Berlinsky makes a great case for attentiveness to developments in Europe, seeing what's happening there as the American future, if we're not careful. Indeed, the progressive left of our own country is already a fifth column whose entire purpose is to recreate America in the European mold.
But if one looks soberly at developments in Europe and their implications, one might conclude this is a future most desperately to be avoided.
Enjoy!!!