The Roots of Our Cultural Rot

Two more books join the medley of volumes published in the last decade seeking to explain why the West has lost its cultural footings. Matthias Gisslar and Frank Furedi agree that “modernity” must be implicated somehow but on little else. Gisslar’s “anthropology of the West” maintains that rationality, equality, and individualism are exhausted and have taken on entirely different meanings, while Furedi concludes that the Left's success in rewriting history threatens Western cultural identity and core principles.