Between 1980 And 2000 The

So Much Of Liberalism In Its Classical Sense Is Taken For Granted In The West Today And Even Disrespected. We Take Freedom For Granted, And Because Of This We Don't Understand How Incredibly Vulnerable It Is.

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

All Empires Have Depended On Local Legitimacy And Local Collaboration; They Are Not Based Primarily On Coercion. An Imperial Rule That Relies Wholly On Coercion Can't Endure. It's Too Expensive.

I Refuse To Accept That Western Civilization Is Like Some Hopeless Old Version Of Microsoft Dos, Doomed To Freeze, Then Crash. I Still Cling To The Hope That The United States Is The Mac To Europe's Pc, And That If One Part Of The West Can Successfully Update And Reboot Itself, It's America.

If Young Men Have Jobs - Or The Prospects Of Jobs - They Are Less Likely To Take Up Arms, They Are Less Likely To Join The Resistance.