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There are two misconceptions held by many Americans.  The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded.  The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well.  "The Sixties are dead," wrote columnist George Will ("Slamming the Doors," Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1991) Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political movement. However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay' rights groups....

Pat Buchanan's new book, The Death of the West, is important for many reasons. It confronts us with the single greatest strategic question of the 21st century: will Western culture still be alive 100 years from now? As The Death of the West illustrates, the answer may be quot;no.quot; In one hundred years, it may all be lost and gone, everything our ancestors created over the last 3,000 years. Throughout human history, there have been only two cultures that worked, Western and Chinese. The loss of either would impoverish our planet for the rest of the age. As Pat...