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Why Western Civilization Has Lost Its Self-Confidence

by Michael Patrick Leahy31 Dec 201521 When did we give up? And can we reenergize Western society? As we approach 2016, the West is experiencing a civilizational loss of self-confidence, arising from a narcissistic fatalism and cataclysmic failure of institutional leadership. At every turn, it seems, the weak and uncertain leadership of the West is submitting to the strength and evil certainty of radical Islam, of which Winston Churchill warned more than a century ago “no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” We began giving up our self-confidence a century ago when the Western governments who fought on both… View Article