America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It »

Mark Steyn's writing on politics, war, arts, and culture can be read around the world from the Washington Times all the way to Hawke's Bay Today in New Zealand. In the United States he is National Review's Happy Warrior, and a contributor to the New Criterion. His weekly column appears in the New York Sun, the Orange County Register, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and other newspapers. In Canada, he writes for the country's biggest-selling news weekly, Maclean's. In addition, his column appears in many other publications from The Australian to New Zealand's leading magazine, Investigate. He can also be read daily at SteynOnline.com. He is a popular commentator on radio and TV, and has guest hosted such top-rated shows as Hannity & Colmes, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, and Hugh Hewitt. Born in Toronto, he now lives in New Hampshire.

In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

Introduction: Soon to Be Banned in Canada     vii
Prologue: To Be or Not to Be     xxvii
The Gelded Age
The Coming of Age: Births vs. dearths     1
Going...Going...Gone: Demography vs. delusion     23
Men Are from Venus: Primary impulses vs. secondary impulses     41
Arabian Night
Flying the Coop: Big Mo vs. Big Mac     59
The Anything They'll Believe In: Church vs. state     81
The Four Horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs. Eurabia     103
The New Dark Ages...And How to Lighten Up
The State-of-the-Art Primitive: The known unknowns vs. the knowingly unknowing     131
The Unipole Apart: America vs. everyone else     153
The Importance of Being Exceptional: Citizens vs. dependents     177
The Falling Camel: Last legs     193
Acknowledgments     215
Index     217