David P. Goldman writes the “Spengler” essays for Asia Times Online and PJ Media. He is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the London Institute for Policy Research, and a managing director at Reorient Group, a Hong Kong-based investment bank. He is the author of How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too) (Regnery). This review first appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
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