Rod Dreher reflects in The European Conservative on disintegrating social cohesion throughout Western civilization. The rise of secularism, Dreher argues, has left people with no motivation to live for anyone/anything except themselves. Bereft of any rationale for self-sacrifice, he concludes, we are left with a civilization no one is willing to die for.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
