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[The National Interest] It’s the End of the (Western) World as We Know It
Michael Kimmage provides an erudite survey of notions of the decline and fall of the West.
Oct 25, 2020
The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy. By Michael Kimmage. Basic Books; 384 pages; $18.99.
Seattle's CHOP and Athens’ Kolonaki district are so remote that only a globe-spanning event could pair them in a single news cycle […] A portrait of America as an irredeemably racist nation has taken hold worldwide, which reminds that the nation’s foundational promise was never meant to exist in a vacuum.
This book review featured in the October/November print issue (#170) of The National Interest. Continue reading the online version in its entirety here.
