Salon.com Books | Hipster rebel punk outsiders -- 99 cents a dozen

Salon.com Books | Hipster rebel punk outsiders -- 99 cents a dozen: "As another European expat scholar, George Steiner, has put it, we live in a 'post-culture' (he means post-Auschwitz and post-Hiroshima) in which all the moral certainties of Western civilization have been stripped away and we wander about with no clear purpose, like ants whose hill has been blown up by a kid with a firecracker."