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On December 20, 1931, readers of the New York Times opened its pages to find a striking analysis of the global scene by the British writer and frequent Times contributor P. W. Wilson. Rather than dividing the world into West and non- West, or democracies, monarchies, autocracies, and colonies, Wil- son discerned a battle between Judeo- Christian and authoritarian regimes. He identified the militantly secularizing states founded by Lenin and Ataturk as “alternatives to the Judeo- Christian faith.” Grounding political systems in deeper, cultural structures
