Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Steyn: Gloom and Doom

In the last few years, Mark Steyn has been one of the most eloquent and talented exponents of the "decline of the West" thesis, reformulated here as the "decline of the Anglosphere." Steyn is sometimes bitingly funny; this article in The New Criterion is not one of those times.

Most of his discussion focuses on the deterioration of British society, and his concern that the same forces are at work in the U.S. You may or may not agree with his formulation, but either way Steyn is always a good read.