Do Brexit, unbridled immigration, Russian aggression, and mounting nationalist sentiment augur the imminent end of the European project?

In this well-researched and tightly reported study, James Kirchick presages calamity for the continent if such trends aren’t reversed. “We are on the cusp,” he cautions, “of witnessing the end of Europe as we have known it for the past seven decades: a place of peace, stability, prosperity, cooperation, democracy, and social harmony.” To arrest this descent—no mean feat—Kirchick calls for a restoration of Europe’s “muscular liberal center.”