Required Reading

2006 is barely underway, but Mark Steyn has written the most important thing you’ll read all year:

Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries.

You’ll find the rest at OpinionJournal.

Related thoughts (and a few we-told-you-so’s) here and here and here and here and here.