Dave: The Lee Harris piece on fantasy ideology is indeed fascinating, and it led me to read his book that was inspired by the favorable response to that article, entitled Civilization and Its Enemies.

Unfortunately the book did not sustain the unique insight presented by that article. In fact, after a long and interesting journey from the beginnings of civilization, he ends up more or less saying that the Nazis and other fascists of WWII had their own fantasy ideologies. So, I see no reason to treat the Islamic Fascists any differently.

In any case, read the book if you wish, but don’t expect anything that expands usefully beyond the article.