If someone offered you some decadent chocolate for Valentine's Day, would you decline? Or would you fall for them? "Decadence" has in fact long been used to refer to the downslope of a once-great ...
America’s alarming decline was detailed in a recent report by the Commission on National Defense Strategy, a panel of eight experts appointed by senior members of the House and Senate Armed ...
Writing in the Financial Times in 2002, for instance, Yale professor Paul Kennedy, author of a widely read book on imperial decline, argued that “America’s array of force is staggering ...
or so he sang in America, his iconic soundscape ballad of the 1960s with its lost souls on the highways of a country in flux. Back then, this city’s long, slow decline had already begun, ...