Can America be saved? Patrick Buchanan expresses virtually no hope in The Death of the West. The John Birch Society holds a contrary point of view. (Cultural Currents).

Pat Buchanan's new book, The Death of the West, has scaled the heights of the New York Times Best-Seller List. Its subtitle "How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization" captures the book's main theme, which is that present demographic trends indicate that the West will soon shrivel up and die.

Buchanan's treatment of the demographic front in the "Culture War" is well written and informative. But his book is handicapped by two serious flaws: First, the identification of low birth rates, high immigration rates, and cultural Marxist ideology as the most important "clear and present dangers" for America; and second, the book's ...