Mark Steyn's New Book. After America. Get Ready for Armageddon
Mark Steyn, writer, polemicist, sometime-guest host for Rush Limbaugh, and all-around darling of the right, has a new book out that some of our more conservative Allies may be adding to their reading list.
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon - not to be confused with Mark Steyn's previous apocalyptic tome, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It - officially launched last week. Its topic? The collapse of Western society. In its own words:
In his New York Times bestseller America Alone, Steyn warned of the impending collapse of just about every country in the western world except America. The good news is the rest of the west’s demise is still on schedule. The bad news is America has now signed up for the same program, supersized. And, unlike AIG, Fannie Mae, Detroit and Greece, the United States is big enough to fail, and spectacularly so. If, like Mark, you want to avoid that fate, then After America is the book for you. It starts with the money, because it always does - for Washington, as for London and Rome before it. But it ends with a ruined and reprimitivized planet - and even liberals won't like that as much as they think.
If you enjoyed Mark's last apocalyptic blockbuster, you'll appreciate this one even more. From budgets to the border, diversity to disease, manufacturing to manhood, Steyn looks at the American undreaming, and provides a glimpse of the post-American world. There's laughs along the way, and a few suggestions as to how total civilizational collapse might be avoided.
Ed Driscoll has an excerpt to whet your appetite, as will the current issue of Maclean's magazine. Since its release, Mark has been on a whirlwind series of media appearances to hype his new book, most of which are archived here. Of particular interest might be his interviews with Ed Driscoll and The Heritage Foundation, and especially his roughly forty-five minute appearance on Ezra Levant's show for Sun TV, The Source. In the meantime, After America is at both the number two and number six spots on Amazon.com's bestsellers list ( how that works, we have no idea ), and the number two bestsellers spot with Amazon's Canadian cousin, Amazon.ca.
World events seem to have borne out Mark Steyn's thesis, since both the London riots and the US economic downgrade fit nicely into the themes explored in his book.
Walker Morrow is a Contributing Writer for The Propagandist
