No ‘Clash of Civilizations’: Harvard Economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Says Huntington Got It Wrong

None of us are just Christians or just Muslims or just Jews, Hindus or Buddhists. We are human beings—messy, mixed-up conglomerations of innumerable categories, every one of which offers an opportunity for commonality with others, for dialog instead of conflict. Our civilizational identity, Sen insists, is not our destiny