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What is the “Future of the West?” I myself have given this question no small amount of consideration, and so it was with some interest that I picked up the latest issue of the Harvard Political Review (HPR). The inside cover started off interestingly enough, with the surprisingly blunt admission that “the West can no longer define itself based on who its citizens are,” given the demographic decline of native populations and the large increases in immigration from the Third World...
...This is why it has been ignored. Europe’s demographic implosion cuts across countries that are both post-communisst and Western European, religious and secular, small and large, economically stagnant and dynamic, and virtually any other category one sees fit to create. Like the editors of the HPR, I do not have a fully formed explanation for this, maybe because there simply isn’t one. I don’t, however, think that anything or anyone is helped by trying to reduce the enormity of the challenges facing the countries of Europe...
...wide-ranging as they are unpredictable. History is, of course, rarely as simple as straight lines of “decline” or “rise,” but I certainly think that Europe’s situation is quite a bit more precarious than the HPR, or many Harvard students, would have it. Whether you agree with me or not, Europe’s future is worth serious thought. The Europe we know today will soon be gone...
...weeks after the "censorship" HPR, watch out for a new issue of Diversity and Distinction, which will feature an article on eating disorders and ethnicity and a piece on the recent book “Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers—And How You Can Too?...
...cheddar cheese on hand to offer to the representatives of student groups who will inevitably invade your office pissed off about something or other. Everyone knows that the leaders of BSA, BGLTSA, BOND, AAA, CI, HRCF, AACF, HSI, HIS, SAS, SSA, CASV, RUS, BMF, ABHW, CSA, IOP, HRC, HPR, HIPJ, PSLM and HASA love cheddar cheese...