Claire Berlinski

Claire Berlinski (born 1968) is an American journalist and author. Born and raised in California and other parts of the United States, including New York City and Seattle, she read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford where she earned a doctorate in International Relations. She has lived in Bangkok, where she worked for Asia Times; Laos, where she worked briefly for the United Nations Development Program; and Istanbul, where she worked as a freelance journalist. She now lives in Paris, France.

Quotes

2000s

• [D]escribed the worship of power as "the new religion in Europe." Anti-Americanism, predicated in part on fascism's mirror image, the revilement of power–especially when that power is somebody else's–answers many of the fundamental needs once filled by the Church. There is a transcendant and common goal.
  • Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too (2006), Crown Forum, p. 10

2010s

• [F]ury is an emotion that I pride myself on *controlling.* Civilization depends upon the control of our instincts--aggression foremost among them. May I suggest rolling back the conversation a bit...
  • Twitter post (1 October 2018)

• I do not like the Democrats. At all. After the year-long sex panic and the Kavanaugh spectacle, frankly, I loathe them.
  • Twitter post (28 October 2018)

• I'll be voting for the Democrats again in the coming election, however much I don't think they deserve my vote. And I'll pray that someone in America has the courage and the ability to form a new political party. This should not be beyond us. We're an accomplished nation.
  • Twitter post (28 October 2018)

• Washington is the most intensely parochial city in the world.
  • Twitter post (6 November 2018)

External links

• Official website
• Encyclopedic article on Claire Berlinski on Wikipedia