Revel is best known for his books '' Without Marx or Jesus : The New American Revolution Has Begun '' , '' The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information '' and his 2002 book '' Anti-Americanism '' , one year after the September 11 attacks of 2001 . In the last of these books , Revel criticized anti-Americanism and Europeans who argued that the United States had brought the terrorist attacks upon itself by misguided foreign policies : " Obsessed by their hatred and floundering in illogicality , these dupes forget that the United States , acting in its own self-interest , is also acting in the interest of us Europeans and in the interests of many other countries which are threatened , or have already been subverted and ruined , by terrorism . " In 1975 , he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden , Netherlands , under the title '' La tentation totalitaire '' ( )
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Jean-François Revel