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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Modernity is nothing short of a miracle.
Chapter 3: England gave the miracle uniquely fertile ground to grow.
Chapter 4: The miracle prevailed even though humans are naturally violent and mistrustful.
Chapter 5: Modernity split Enlightenment thinkers into rival camps of optimists and pessimists.
Chapter 6: Aristocracy is both natural and necessary, but it has to be constrained.
Chapter 7: The administrative state is driving the West’s decline.
Chapter 8: Identity politics poses another grave danger to the miracle.
Chapter 9: If Western civilization is to endure, we must reclaim its core values.
Description
Suicide of the West (2018) answers two vitally important questions: what made the triumph of Western civilization possible and how can we preserve its achievements. Tribalism, Goldberg argues, might be deeply rooted in human nature, but it can be held in check. If we want to discover how that can be done, we need to look at the two greatest examples of what he calls the “miracle” – the revolutions that put England and, later, America on the path to liberty and greatness. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. If we fail to learn history’s lessons, we’ll end up contributing to nothing less than the suicide of the West.
Who Should Listen
- Politics buffs of all stripes
- Anyone who’s perplexed by the rise of tribalism and populism
- Anyone interested in the foundations of liberalism