Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Poetry_Gift_Guide From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide

From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower

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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Poetry_Gift_Guide From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicideWestern Self Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'" in its political