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In the tradition of Geertz's "Anti Anti‐Relativism," this essay analyzes the clash between multiculturalists and anti‐multiculturalists as an exchange of worries and warnings about the dangers inherent in the other ism. It then contrasts the concept of culture as employed by anthropologists and by multiculturalists. Finally, it arrives at the conclusion that, while we as anthropologists should not fully embrace multiculturalism, we should reject anti‐multiculturalism.

Gitlin reviews 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated' by Gore Vidal and 'Why Do People Hate America?' by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies.

In a Bertrand duopoly model, it is shown that an anti-dumping regulation can be strategically exploited by the domestic firm to reduce the degree of competition in the domestic market. The domestic firm commits not to export to the foreign market which gives the foreign firm a monopoly in its own market. As a result the foreign firm will increase its price allowing the domestic firm to increase its price and its profits. If the products are sufficiently close substitutes then the higher profits in the domestic market are large enough to compensate for the loss of profits on exports.

A review essay on a book by Paul Iganski & Barry Kosmin (Eds), A New Antisemitism? Debating Judeophobia in 21st Century Britain (London: Profile, 2003).