In a fine review of Ibn Warraq’s seminal new work, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, Michael Weiss summarizes the author’s account of what went awry with postcolonial studies — the academic discipline largely created by Said, which, in an attempt to analyze the relationship of conqueror to conquered, entrenched (as Weiss says) “a dime-store psychology of empire at the center of every discussion of ‘East meets West.’” (The New York Sun)