This is strongly worded but there's very little rigour or argumentation. Take paragraph near the end: > You can see how a society dies — with horrific, brutal

This is strongly worded but there's very little rigour or argumentation. Take paragraph near the end: > You can see how a society dies — with horrific, brutal clarity — in the self-destruction of America and Britain. The hate-filled vitriol of Trumpism, the barely-hidden hate of Brexit. Why wouldn’t people who have grown suddenly poor hate everyone else? Why wouldn’t they blame anyone and everyone they can — from Mexicans to Muslims to Europeans — for their own decline? The truth, as always, is harder. America and Britain’s collapse is nobody’s fault — nobody’s — but their own. The first sentence, the paragraph sentence that anchors the paragraph, is bold and promises much, but what is then offered? Non-specific references to the "hate" of Trumpism and Brexit, and then 3 rhetorical questions. I don't really disagree that the situation is dire, but I am unimpressed with this think-piece. There are no references in this, despite making some quite strong claims.