Many of my fellow conservative columnists have lamented in recent weeks that the troubling trend of Western men voyaging to the Middle East to become terrorists has its roots in the stultifying boredom of life in modern capitalistic society.
TheWeek.com’s Michael Brendan Dougherty’s explored the topic in a post called “How the West produces jihadi tourists.” The New York Times’ Ross Douthat ventured into similar territory in his “Our thoroughly modern enemies.” National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke was on board, too, in a post titled “Sadly, totalitarianism is exciting.”
via The dangers of our passionless American life – The Week.
