Last tango in Italy: empty cradles and seven million new immigrants

What will the future look like? Ask the childcare companies that are shutting down. We're like an old man at a disco pretending the future is just around the corner. Wake up or the lights will go out

The English say: “A hunch is not a fact, but it can be the beginning of one.”

And this is more than a hunch about Italy’s future—now a “living laboratory” of Western decline.

The most important story of our time is that the entire Western world is plunging into an abyss, and most Westerners aren’t even aware of it—or don’t want to be informed. I envy them a bit. It’s comforting to row a canoe while insisting that the roar ahead is music from the last tango, not Niagara Falls.