On Second Look

In America Alone, Mark Steyn (of National Review, talk radio, and occasionally Fox News) cites various worldwide demographic trends to extrapolate a view of the future geopolitical landscape, particularly with respect to the growth of Islam. Some claims in the book I found notable are -

• World population will stabilize in 30 years.
• US population will remain stable as immigration compensates for low birth rate.
• Russia will cease to exist in a generation, if its population trend continues.
• Europe is turning Islam.

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Back at last. One thing I’ve done since the last post is read (or listen to) several books, including three that built upon each other topically (by accident – I didn’t chose them for that reason), and which I will review here in upcoming days.

• America Alone, by Mark Steyn
• Antichrist: Islam’s Awaited Messiah, by Joel Richardson
• Epicenter, by Joel C. Rosenberg

Given that this blog is entitled On Second Look, I can evade (quite conveniently) comprehensive summaries of the text, assuming the reader has already seen reviews such as those at amazon.com, and instead focus on offering my appraisal.