
How Civilizations Die
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- Intro
- Praise
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- PART ONE - THE DECLINE OF THE EAST
- CHAPTER 1 - THE CLOSING OF THE MUSLIM WOMB
- Demographics and Desperation
- CHAPTER 2 - FAITH, FERTILITY, AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE
- Why the "Overpopulation" Scare Was an Aberration
- Faith and the Fertility Shift
- What Determines Fertility?
- CHAPTER 3 - WHAT THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS MEAN
- Tunisia's Lost Generation
- Famine Stalks Egypt
- Eurabia or Eu-grave-ia?
- CHAPTER 4 - SEX , DRUGS , AND ISLAM
- Oil Runs Out as the Iranian Bulge Generation Retires
- CHAPTER 5 - "THEY WANT TO DESTROY THE TURKISH NATION!"
- CHAPTER 6 - THE END OF TRADITIONAL MUSLIM SOCIETY
- Wife-Beating as a Religious Practice
- Honor Killings, Genital Mutilation, and Cousin Marriages
- The Crisis of Criticism
- CHAPTER 7 - THE ISLAMIST RESPONSE
- Can Islam Take the West Down with It?
- PART TWO - THEOPOLITICS
- CHAPTER 8 - CIVILIZATIONAL FAILURE AND SUICIDE
- Suicidal Resistance in War
- Irrational Resistance in the American Civil War
- Preempting a Desperate Opponent
- A Case Study in Preemption: Russia and the Cold War
- The Ambitions of the Persian Empire
- CHAPTER 9 - FOUR GREAT EXTINCTIONS
- The Gods That Failed
- Classical Extinction in a Nineteenth-Century Mirror
- CHAPTER 10 - ISLAM: THE ARABS AS CHOSEN PEOPLE
- The Theology of Submission versus the Theology of Love
- A God of Love Is a God of Laws
- Failure and Faith
- Tawhid and Totality
- Vicarious Sacrifice versus Personal Sacrifice: The Eucharist and Jihad
- CHAPTER 11 - HOW CHRISTIANITY DIED IN EUROPE
- Contending Understandings of Election, and the Ruin of Europe
- CHAPTER 12 - WHY SOME RELIGION FAILS IN THE MODERN WORLD
- Quebec: The Final Bastion of French Messianism
- Poland, "The Christ Among the Nations"
- The Wearing Out of the Green
- The Sudden Death of Spanish Religion
- PART THREE - WHY IT WON'T BE A POST-AMERICAN WORLD
- CHAPTER 13 - PASSING THE ACID TEST OF MODERNITY
- Religion and American Fertility
- Exceptional Israel
- CHAPTER 14 - EUROPE'S RUIN AND AMERICA'S FOUNDING
- The Almost-Chosen People and Its Almost-Tragedy
- The Future of American Religion
- American Christianity in the Global South
- CHAPTER 15 - CAN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY BE EXPORTED?
- The Operation Was Successful, but the Patient Died
- Elective Antipathies in the Muslim World
- Do Muslims Want American-Style Democracy?
- Is the American Way Better?
- Sometimes, Optimism Really Is Cowardice
- CHAPTER 16 - THE MORALITY OF SELF-INTEREST
- Augustinian Realism
- The Emperor Has No Clothes, and the Empire Has No Tailors
- Engaging Success and Ring-Fencing Failure
- Acknowledgments
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
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