Source: Law & Liberty
by Graham McAleer
“Robert D. Kaplan is one of America’s most prolific and important writers. Presidents have consulted his books, and as an expert in geopolitics, he is a member of both the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. Astonishingly, Kaplan publishes a book most years and his latest Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis contends that the West’s democratic liberalism is caught in a fatal pincer of conformity and conspiracy. Taking his theme from T. S. Eliot’s long form poem written in the wake of World War I, Kaplan argues that the West is a declining civilization but not on account of pressure from other great powers. China and Russia are also declining powers, so the West’s problem is internal. A gifted civilization, the West has unleashed powerful forces that have boomeranged.” (04/03/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/liberalisms-bleak-future/