Authority and its enemies

The "suicide of the West" is a puzzle to both friend and foe. In this short but, creative volume, Thomas Molnar sees the collapse of our civilization as rooted in a failure of authority to assert itself. Due to an assortment of leftist critiques over recent centuries the sources of authority in the West are now handcuffed. The proper wielding of authority is seen as non-democratic and against the freedoms of pluralism and egalitarian society. Molnar shows what authority, in essence, is and how it could possibly be restored in our culture. In the end, though, he remains far from optimistic about our future if devoid, as it is at present, of authority.