The Church and the Suicide of the West, by James Kalb

In 2006 Pope Benedict spoke of

a peculiar Western self-hatred that is nothing short of pathological. It is commendable that the West is trying to be more open, to be more understanding of the values of outsiders, but it has lost all capacity for self-love. All that it sees in its own history is the despicable and the destructive; it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure.

The situation hasn’t gotten better since Benedict wrote. Today such a statement, with its implication that the West is distinctive and worthy of love and admiration, would be denounced as white supremacist.  …