Like the more optimistic, less fatalistic follow up to [b:The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success|50053432|The Decadent Society How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success|Ross Douthat|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1577016249l/50053432._SY75_.jpg|71431330]- in that it tackles some of the same problems but doesn't actually assume that US is trapped in the same problems that Europe faces. And. Fuck the French, as a book.