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Synopsis. Goldberg argues that the "virtues" of the United States have become "vices" in modern U.S. culture. The U.S. is turned from a City Upon a Hill to a force for darkness and evil in the world. [ 2] He rejects the concept of a political "end of history" as advocated by Karl Marx, Francis Fukuyama, and other thinkers.
Apr 24, 2018 · In this eye-opening and debate shifting book, National Review’s senior editor Jonah Goldberg has surely written a political tour de force. Suicide of the West’s general thesis is that we live in a world that has lifted itself out of poverty, hunger, and war, into a relatively safe and fair society.
Nov 25, 2014 · James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism.
Oct 15, 2002 · The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation.
Apr 24, 2018 · Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history--in 18th century England when we accidentally discovered the miracle of liberal democratic capitalism.
As the West commits suicide by shrinking geographically, being invaded by aliens, and cheering for its own decline, one cannot help but mourn its death. Yet all civilizations eventually lose their life-sustaining spirit and collapse.
With characteristic wit and erudition, Jonah Goldberg argues that if you value democracy and a free society, you must stand against ideological tribalism, no matter what your politics. Suicide of the West raises an alarm everyone needs to hear, and makes clear the path we need to take.”