Sociologist and Political Scholar

Paul Hollander

8 articles 2001–2015

Paul Hollander is a Hungarian-born sociologist and political scientist known for his extensive scholarship on anti-Americanism, political violence, and communist systems. A professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he authored influential works including *Political Pilgrims* and *Anti-Americanism*. He contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard from 2001 to 2015, often exploring ideological extremism, totalitarianism, and cultural criticism.

Marx and the Koran

February 23, 2015 · Features, Terrorism, Paul Hollander

Time and again it is reported that Muslim terrorists in the process of inflicting lethal bodily harm (with firearms, explosives, knives, or by running over people with cars) shout “God is Great!” (Allahu Akbar). It is a remarkable and seemingly puzzling phenomenon that has received little…

Brain Drain

January 19, 2009 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Age of American Unreason

Red Aussie

October 20, 2008 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

On Burchett

Philosophy Made Simple

March 24, 2008 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Book of Memories

July 9, 2007 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

A Guest in My Own Country

Evil's Autopsy

February 12, 2007 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

My Correct Views on Everything

America by Numbers

August 21, 2006 · Paul Hollander, Magazine, Books and Arts

America Against the World

Anti-Americanism Revisited

October 22, 2001 · Paul Hollander, Magazine

IN THE AFTERMATH of the attacks of September 11, attempts are being made in the United States and elsewhere to understand the hatred of the attackers by shifting responsibility for it onto their target, the United States. We are witnessing a new outpouring of anti-Americanism on a scale not seen…