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Woke Watch books
Slouching Towards Gomorrah Robert Bork's 1996 pessimistic account of how radical individualism and egalitarianism have corroded American culture and law. Suicide of the West James Burnham's 1964 argument that liberalism is the ideology of Western decline, a doctrine of guilt that disarms civilization. The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom's 1987 bestseller arguing that relativism and German philosophy emptied American universities and their students. The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset's 1930 diagnosis of mass man, who demands rights and comforts but accepts no duty, and the danger he poses to civilization. Why Liberalism Failed Patrick Deneen's 2018 argument that liberal individualism has undermined the communities and virtues it needs, producing the populist backlash.