PATRICK LAWRENCE: Embracing the Equality of Nations

Your columnist stands with Toynbee on this point. The West's decline, now so evident, arises from the choices its leaders make daily, Europe's ambivalences notwithstanding. But we must not miss the optimism buried beneath the apparent pessimism. What is in decline should decline. Then there is at least the prospect of beginning again, and differently.

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