In "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age," Kirchick (a clever but ignorant American thirty-something, whose admirably polished prose serves to obfuscate his puerility), lavishes unreflective worship on every single thing that Legutko despises. Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who . The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. By James Kirchick. pp, Yale University Press, Purchase. Through engaging anecdotes, Kirchick paints a dark picture of contemporary Europe: rising anti-Semitism and Islamic radicalization, a looming Russian threat, the spread of Brexit-like referendums, the coming dominance of the far right, rampant nationalism, .
James Kirchick. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, £/$ pp. The End of Europe starts off by announcing that 'Europe today is breaking apart and slowly heading down the once unfathomable path to war' (pp. ), and ends by insisting that 'such a collapse would usher in nothing less than a new dark age' (p. ). Find many great new used options and get the best deals for End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age by James Kirch at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Whether Europe's democratic institutions endure depend largely on how today's leaders confront the dynamics Kirchick identifies. The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age James Kirchick, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Columnist at Tablet Magazine. Explore the AHS library for other summer reading.
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age-James Kirchick. TL:DR: a good overview of the problems facing Europe, but somewhat limited. Reading this book, I cannot help but think of The Lost Continent, a book exploring the effects of the financial crisis on Europe. This book, in some ways, reads like an updated version. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for “Brexit;” examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. In "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age," Kirchick (a clever but ignorant American thirty-something, whose admirably polished prose serves to obfuscate his puerility), lavishes unreflective worship on every single thing that Legutko despises.
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