Tag: the west

• Opinion | The West Is Lost

  December 15, 2025

  Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/west-europe-america-lost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.fmj5.leL4plCy7p0w&smid=url-share more ›

• The Great Reckoning – The Ideas Letter

  November 2, 2025

  The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about… more ›

• Opinion | The West Is Lost

  November 2, 2025

  Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/west-europe-america-lost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.fmj5.leL4plCy7p0w&smid=url-share more ›

• What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? | Aeon Essays

  June 1, 2025

  It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-cure-for-the-wests-individualist-worldview?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=054df2db96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-71652312 more ›

• Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization

  January 20, 2025

  Back in 2021, I wrote a blog post for American Purpose on “Silvio Berlusconi and the Decline of Western Civilization.” In it I argued that when historians 50 or 100… more ›

• Liberty under attack from enemies within

  March 25, 2023

  It is easy to look around the world at the building tensions and think that the greatest enemy of freedom comes from a nefarious, despotic regime in Russia, Iran or China. We should,… more ›

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• The Deconstruction of the West

  April 22, 2017

  The Deconstruction of the West » The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture. more ›

• Paris is still the center of the world

  November 15, 2015

  Paris is still the center of the world Out of the gate: in November, 2015,  Agenda-setting is still regarded as a relevant theory to explain how news media can influence public… more ›