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Why culture is better in the land of the free

The Think Tank: Contemporary US culture, whether literature, film or art, has become better than its British counterpart. And those dedicated haters of all that is American are mainly driven by an inferiority complex, says Stephen Daisley .

STEPHEN DAISLEY

In the wake of the Iraq war, novelist Margaret Drabble voiced what has become a common cry among the chattering classes. "My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable," she wrote. "It has possessed me, like a disease.