Laqueur

It is, to paraphrase Laqueur's book, no accident that this scene appears in the modern novel most centrally committed to probing the deepest inward spaces of the self, throwing over embarrassment and shame, and disclosing the truth, including the sexual truth, that lies hidden in the darkness.

Me, Myself, and I Greenblatt, Stephen 2004

Worse still, they point out something that Mr. Laqueur strangely neglects to mention—namely, that the U.S. faces many of the same challenges as Europe: political dysfunction, high debt, broken pension and health-care systems, large-scale immigration, dependence on foreign energy, and, of course, competition from India and China.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

Most important, Mr. Laqueur overstates both how steep Europe's decline is likely to be and how thoroughly it will dash the dreams of ordinary Europeans.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

What is more, Mr. Laqueur believes that the immigrants already in Europe are so poorly integrated and so unskilled that the most likely newcomers—relatives of those already there—would do more harm than good.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

In this loosely linked series of thematic essays on Europe's troubles, Mr. Laqueur paints an even starker portrait.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

But, according to Mr. Laqueur, this isn't a viable solution.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

But as Walter Laqueur argues in "After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent," this dream was delusional from the start.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

Like Mr. Laqueur, our current doomsayers are very good at portraying the scale of the threats we face.

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

If current trends continue, Mr. Laqueur says, 100 years from now Europe's population "will be only a fraction of what it is today, and in two hundred, some countries may have disappeared."

A Continent's Discontents Yascha Mounk 2012

In the 1970s and 1980s, “some Western Sovietologists claimed that the importance of the purges and forced labor had been grossly overstated, both quantitatively and qualitatively,” is the comment by Laqueur Dream That Failed, 134.

Deathride John Mosier 2010