Steyn argues forcefully that much of the Western world as we know it will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes - including many if not most European countries. He shows how this process is already well advanced, and explains that whether we like the New Order in Europe and the world depends on whether America can summon the will to shape at least part of the emerging global picture. If not, then it will mean the end of the American moment and the beginning of the new Dark Ages: the return of much the planet to a primitive state.
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Published: October, 2006
Book Description
In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn–probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world–takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.
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It�s the end of the world as we know it�
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.
And liberals will still tell you that “diversity is our strength”�while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn�t violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this can�t happen, you haven�t been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn�the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world�shows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.
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 America 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.
Mark Steyn�s America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny�but it will also change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year.
Rating: - mark steyn online.com for all his articles
Simply put, Mark Steyn is the best columnist out there right now. read him in the New York Sun (great newspaper) or at his own website (listed above). There you will find his thoughts from which this book hails. As the world (and, in particular, Europe) wallows in moral relativism, Islam rises; thanks to the West’s self-induced vacuum of cultural suicide. Only the USA (Tony Blair, and Pope Benedict) seem at all concerned. That’s why it appears that America shall have to fell Islamo-fascism on its … Read More
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Rating: - Essential reading to understand the Clash of Civilization
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know illuminates the threat to Western civilization, especially old Europe (France, Germany, Holland, et al). For years we have been warned by the `experts’ of the danger of overpopulation, and world population estimates have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (UN estimate circa 1990) to now 9 billion and perhaps less.
The problem is that the secular Western countries need religious-society birthrates to sustain it. Just … Read More
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Rating: - “Some light reading for the new dark ages”
At least, that’s how he signed my copy. I’d call Mark Steyn’s essay the single best distillation of the challenge posed to the West by radical Islam that I have ever read.
Regular readers of Mr. Steyn will not be unfamiliar with his central points:
1) In the ongoing conflict between the West and Islam, both the demographics and the will to power favor the Islamists. That a country like Spain, with a birth rate of 1.15 children per adult women, will extinguish itself in a few … Read More
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Rating: - Serious, Sober & Funny
Mark Steyn is an astute observer of today’s geopolitical scene, especially the rising tide of Muslim fundamentalism in Europe. This is a sober subject with ominous implications for the free world. Yet Steyn consistently leavens his commentaries with razor-sharp wit and trenchant one-liners.
On Russia’s abominable 70% abortion rate: “Russian women are voting with their fetuses.”
On opinion polls showing 49% of Egyptians believe the Mossad is responsible for a recent terrorist … Read More
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