Our Culture, or What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple is a FANTASTIC book--I've been babbling about this to all my friends. I urge any FReeper to check this out. I have no real idea about Dalrymple's political leanings, but he is an intellectual who speaks plain truths. I'm so glad you mentioned this, and I hope FReepers reading this thread will check that out. Dalrymple's a doctor living in London, I think, and has an original perspective--he worked with the poor, and doesn't come off as some liberal socialist robot as one might expect. Very enjoyable, but I hated having that cover looking at me for a couple weeks....
Darkness At Noon is a great book, btw, but you've heard that already, I'll bet.
I think there's a blurb on the book jacket comparing him to Orwell, which might be a bit of an embellishment, but it still doesn't take away from his incisive analysis of the many cultural maladies blighting Western society.
England and Europe, but also the United States to a certain extent.
If you want to check out his writings you should try the website for City Journal, a quarterly from the Manhattan Institute.
He's a regular contributor.