Nevertheless, much more than most of us would care to admit, we remain enmeshed in the concepts and categories of the twentieth century’s ideological wars. This was most obvious with the intellectual responses to Islamist terror: terms like “Islamo-fascism” or “third totalitarianism” were coined not just to characterize a new enemy of the West, but also to evoke the experience of the anti-totalitarian struggles that preceded and followed World War II.
但是，虽然绝大多数人不愿承认，但我们仍然没有超出二十世纪意识形态之争的概念及范畴。这一点在对伊斯兰恐怖活动所采取的思想对策中体现得尤为明显：创造“伊斯兰法西斯主义”或“第三集权主义”这样的名词不只是为了描述西方世界新的敌人，也是为了唤起二战前后反极权主义的斗争经历。