In this recording from my most recent livestream with TGS editor Mark Sussman, we discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission. It imagines a scenario in which, through ordinary elections and parliamentary negotiations, the Muslim Brotherhood takes power in France. I seriously doubt such a scenario is possible in the foreseeable future, but then I don't think Houellebecq is prognosticating. Rather, he uses this imaginative gambit to interrogate the contradictions of secular democracy and small-L liber...
