Mr. Eugenides rips into the modern left’s impulsive assignment of moral blame to the West:

“In a fundamental sense” may just be the axiomatic Comment is Free phrase. In one sense, responsibility for throwing acid in a schoolgirl’s face may lie with the acid thrower; in a fundamental sense, however, it is actually ours. In one sense, killing innocent people may be the reponsibility of the killers; in a fundamental sense, though, it’s really the fault of Danish cartoonists.

Read the whole thing, very good indeed.