Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

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