THE WEST
November 2011
‘Do we still have an intellectual elite that reads, and writers to cater for it? In Germany, we have Merkur’
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November 2011
The pessimists are lining up to announce the fall of the West and above all of the US. But the Americans will prove them wrong
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October 2011

Western civilisation has hitherto depended for its survival on two great families of nations: the Europeans and the North Americans. Today,
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September 2011
Ten years after 9/11, our societies need to restore their self-belief. Only a covenant between citizens can recreate the bonds we need
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