"The Flight of the Intellectuals"

New from Melville House: The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman.About the book, from the publisher:Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie—and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”—an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued