The West is in decline. After more than a decade of populist insurrections followed by a global pandemic, and the return of war to eastern Europe, the idea is widespread, even accepted. These narratives suffuse the political right, which often yearns for lost values. Remember the 1950s: the consensus society, privatism, and traditional gender roles – an arcadian vision of things before they fell apart. Further to the right, civilisational undoing usually comes spiced with racial paranoias, laments for the loss of national vigour, and nods in the direction of Oswald Spengler. But the left,...…The West is in decline. After more than a decade of populist insurrections followed by a global pandemic, and the return of war to eastern Europe, the idea is widespread, even accepted. These narratives suffuse the political right, which often yearns for lost values. Remember the 1950s: the consensus society, privatism, and traditional gender roles – an arcadian vision of things before they fell apart. Further to the right, civilisational undoing usually comes spiced with racial paranoias, laments for the loss of national vigour, and nods in the direction of Oswald Spengler. But the left,...WW…