America alone
America alone: the end of the world as we know it Mark Steyn
Publisher: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; c2006.
ISBN: 0895260786
DDC: 303.482730176709
LCC: E895
Summary:
"Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a
muezzin. Europeans already are." "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs
to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while
the West - wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own
confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and
self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion -
is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization." "Europe,
laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West
has one, belongs to American alone - with maybe its cousins in brave
Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom
only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of
self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in
the conviction that our country really is the world's last best
hope."
"Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America
should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government,
religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread
America's influence around the world - for our own sake as well as
theirs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. The gelded age. The coming of age: births vs. deaths; Going...
going... gone: demography vs. delusion; Men are from Venus: primary
impulses vs. secondary impulses. -- Pt. II. Arabian night. Flying the
coop: big Mo vs. Big Mac; The anything they'll believe in: church vs.
state; The four horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs. Eurabia. --
Pt. III. The new dark ages... and how to lighten up. The
state-of-the-art primitive: the known unknowns vs. the knowingly
unknowing; The unipole apart: America vs. everyone else; The
importance of being exceptional: citizens vs. dependents; The falling
camel: last legs.
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