Monday, February 16, 2026

Wilder: "The Defeat of the West?"

John Wilder has a new post: "The Defeat Of The West?" John offers some thoughts on Emmanuel Todd’s latest book, La Défaite de l’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”), stating:

In Todd’s view, the collective West is collapsing, compared to “stable” powers like Russia and China.  The West’s decline isn’t from bad luck or Russian super-spies, nope.  It comes from the rotting foundations of the West itself.   

John's discussion covers the de-industrialization of the West, the fiat economy, and a deep moral rot resulting in a deep nihilism and rejection of Christianity, with one of the primary examples being the legalization of gay marriage. 

Todd’s book substantiates the politically incorrect that I’ve been championing forever:  nationalism trumps globalism.  The West is exhausted, defeated not by conquest but by its own nihilism leading to that most Evil philosophy of all:  “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”    

Read the whole thing. 

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Wilder: "The Defeat of the West?"

John Wilder has a new post: " The Defeat Of The West?"  John offers some thoughts on Emmanuel Todd’s latest book, La Défaite de l’...