The war has woken the West to its own decay. Let’s pray it’s not too late
Self-obsession has blinded us to the poison seeping into our democracies. No wonder we feel guilty
The Sunday Times
Perhaps what will confound future historians the most is how dramatically the alarm bells have been ringing these past three decades. After five centuries of growing self-confidence and rising prosperity across the West, built upon a steady accretion of norms and values suffused by liberty and law, and then the great leap forward of the Industrial Revolution, we became lost in our own dream world.
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