This short story appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2012) In a 1948 essay, “The Unification of the World,” the historian Arnold … Continue reading After Empire: Tradition and the Politics of Resentment