I’m finishing up The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents
I’m a bit hesitant about posting a review before I’m done (though right now I’m just reading the endnotes and bibliography). However, Reason did a pretty good review of the book in their January issue: here’s the link. I agree with Brian Doherty that is annoying to see Butterworth play up the anarchist movement/radical Islam angle in the introduction, and then drop it for the rest of the book. The connection is worth considering, but I think there are reasons why it breaks down. For starters, the anarchist movement was never a movement that involved state actors, while radical Islam is. I’ll leave further discussion of that point up to the jihad correspondent…