Complaints about the European Union’s failure to produce its own Silicon Valley and comparisons of gross domestic product with a country of over a billion people are not fair proofs of decline. Yet it ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

In Europe, people resent their social-welfare state system critiqued by Americans, but there's overwhelming evidence that ...

Dr. Reckwitz is a sociologist and the author of a book on loss and modernity. He wrote from Berlin. From the Enlightenment onward, progress functioned as the secular creed of the West. For centuries ...

The new US national security strategy marks a significant historical turn. It shifts the focus from global overpopulation to ...

It has become something of a cliché to assert as an evident fact accepted resignedly, that the West is in decline. It isn’t. The West is essentially the Americas, Central and Western Europe, Israel, ...

A redistribution of financial, military, and political power is underway, which can ignite war. The war tension palpable in ...

The decline of Western hegemony is hardly a new theme. In America, the tradition of hailing the nation's decline goes back to before its founding, as James Fallows explains in the February issue of ...