Magazine Article - Prospect

The Meaning of Huntington

| February 2009

Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America's intellectual elite. It's because he was normal

"Samuel Huntington passed away on Christmas Eve. He is assured a place in the pantheon of modern "big idea" thinkers, alongside his student Francis Fukuyama. But few in this group were as controversial, or as consistently unpopular among their peers. Huntington was accused of everything from militarism to nativism. Noam Chomsky attacked him in the pages of the New York Review of Books over the bombing of Vietnam, and later described the Clash of Civilizations (1996)—Huntington's most famous book—as a tool for the American elite to "control people." He was denied membership of America's prestigious National Academy of Sciences twice...."

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For Academic Citation: Kaufmann, Eric. “The Meaning of Huntington.” Prospect, no. 155. February 2009.

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