My colleague David Frum has posted a thoughtful review of my book in his own province of the National Review empire. I did ask for a big four-part series to rebut his review but apparently Dinesh D’Souza booked all the available space till mid-June. So let me just address a couple of points:

1) Yes, obviously the book is intended to prompt a change of course rather than one final chorus of“You know, that Steyn fellow was right” as we all go over the waterfall. However, I do believe many parts of Continental Europe are so demographically weakened that we’re getting dangerously near the tipping point. My book was written as a wake-up call, but your chances of waking up are better if you’re merely asleep rather than comatose.

2) David is right that America is not a civilization unto itself but merely one part of the broader west. However, I do distinguish in the modern era between the Continental west and the Anglosphere west. The Continent has produced all the best paintings, music, cuisine, etc, but it is only the English-speaking west that has proved itself competent at sustained peaceful constitutional democratic evolution. The Continent has been pretty much a disaster at that. And parts of the Anglosphere are headed the same way. One of the sad features of our age is that contemporary Britain may be far more European than ever before in its history, if only in its inability to resist destructive modish political pathologies.

3) Yes, there are millions of “moderate Muslims”. But Muslim moderation is determined in large part by the confidence of the broader culture. That’s a big part of the problem in Britain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and elsewhere.