The Pantheon of Ancient Wisdom

“The twenty-first century seems to threaten civilizational collapse at every turn,” writes Spencer Klavan in his new book, How to Save the West. He goes on to say, “the West is always on the verge of collapse.” We intuitively feel that both statements are true; given the fires of new global tensions, still emerging from a global pandemic that upended our lives, and increased political fighting and social decay, it is hard not to feel like the apocalyptic preachers are finally having their moment under the dimming sun. Yet we are still here, thousands of years after the first apocalyptic preachers were telling us the world was coming to a sudden ending.