“Slouching toward Mecca”

    A review of a new novel — a pessimistic account of decadence and decline, and of its possible result — by one of France’s foremost writers:   http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archi...   In 1918 and in 1922, Oswald Spengler published his once very famous two-volume work Der Untergang des Abendlandes (“The Decline of the West”).  It [Read More...]