A profoundly original essay that draws on resources from critical economics, religious sociology, and depth anthropology.

The defeat of the West is twofold: an external defeat (the war in Ukraine) but above all an internal defeat (the demographic, moral, and economic decline of Western societies). In this work, the author makes an argued case against the leading classes of the West. Readers will rediscover that which makes Emmanuel Todd’s method so relevant and efficient: analysis of familial models, statistics, and the bigger picture, all with uncommon scholarship.