Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Nationalism, and Socialism Is Destroying American Democracy 

Suicide of the West

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER ·An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface!
“Epic and debate-shifting.”-David Brooks, New York Times
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. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle.
As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are:
·Our rights come from God, not from the government.
·The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it.
·The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth.

Suicide of the West

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