The Wisdom of the Ancients

In his newest work, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises, Spencer Klavan presents a trenchant critique of the digital age and offers a number of antidotes to the contemporary post-millennial malaise. Klavan notes that ours is an apocalyptic era. It seems that every few months a new phenomenon threatens to topple Western civilization (and America in particular). However, Klavan writes that throughout the 2,000 years of Western civilization, empires, kings, and nations have come and gone but the West itself has endured. Moreover, the West is full of stories of new life being breathed into the civilization as an old order was dying: Rome fell and was conquered by Germanic barbarians but the West lived on through the emergence of the great kingdoms of the Middle Ages which took a certain inheritance from Rome while becoming something better and newer at the same time.