Twenty-first-century Western man is living through the reprise of an ancient and epic historical tragedy—the paroxysms of a dying civilizationApril 14, 2011
Into the Night is a powerful, unflinching review of Western civilization’s pilgrimage into a new Dark Age. Exhaustively researched, meticulously written, and panoramic in scope, it merges impressive scholarship with astonishing and original insights forged in daunting, real-world experience. History’s greatest historians and sociologists—Arnold Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, Christopher Dawson, and Oswald Spengler among them—are deployed as intellectual cannonade. Ivy Scarborough draws on diverse skills and extraordinary, far-ranging experiences from the perspectives of eight war zones, university professor of international studies, history and political science, commentator, and lawyer to put these scholars’ views into the context of twenty-first century events and our culture.
Should it be possible to arrest the decline, the citizens of the West must be willing to courageously face bitter realities and acknowledge the West’s abandonment of core beliefs that made it the freest, most prosperous and most powerful civilization in history. With uncompromising defiance of political correctness, ideological and partisan slants, prejudices, and cultural conformity, the author gives no quarter. Scarborough panders to no group or institution. He defers to no individual. In commanding, authoritative tones, Scarborough relentlessly strips away self-delusion, denial, and superficiality to confront the culture’s heart of darkness—illuminating its peril in order to boldly propose the one strategy that might alter Western civilization’s catastrophic course.