America Alone

"Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are." "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West - wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion - is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization." "Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to American alone - with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope." "Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious : we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America's influence around the world - for our own sake as well as theirs."--BOOK JACKET.

In the United States, Mark Steyn's column appears in the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Sun, the Washington Times, the Orange County Register, and other newspapers. He is also National Review's "Happy Warrior," a columnist for the New Criterion, and resident obituarist for the Atlantic Monthly.