Pankaj Mishra’s book, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, is reviewed by Edward Skidelsky.

He writes, “Buddhism fills the vacuum created by the collapse of religious and political hopes. It is appropriate that it should find its home in California, a land fulfilling what Nietzsche specified as the preconditions of Buddhism: “ ‘a very mild climate, very gentle and liberal customs, no militarism; and … it is the higher and even learned classes in which the movement has its home.’ The oldest of the world religions has, by a curious irony, proved itself the most adaptable to the end of history.”

Vinnee Tong