balanced by Americans who are themselves, in a sense, anti-American or, at least, thoroughly alienated from what most Americans would consider the American point of view.
The anti-Americanism is, to some extent, inevitable, deriving partly from the fact that the British political spectrum really does lie several points to the left of the American spectrum, partly from the congenital leftishness of the people who work in newspapers and television, and partly from the historical jealousy which American power and wealth today, like British power and wealth in the nineteenth century, provoke. But the over-all bias is also, to a considerable extent, America’s own fault.
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