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Decrying the decline of the West

Igor Rivin (Temple): The End of the West: A Prologue. Jonah Goldberg delivers his magnum opus: Troy Senik reviews Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg (and more and more and more and more and more). Andrei Cherny on how American leadership built the West — and why today we shouldn’t let it crumble. What happened to the “free world”? Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can’t seem to define what it is they’re defending — the entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.

Luigi Nuzzo (Salento): Rethinking Eurocentrism: European Legal Legacy and Western Colonialism. Dismantling the “West”: The whole concept of “Western” civilization is faulty and should be dumped.