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  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is an epic masterpiece that tells the story of how empires end. It is a six volume comprehensive outlook on the last days of the Roman empire, published between 1776 and 1789, at the time of the founding days of the United States. Gibbon studied …

  The Singaporean diplomat and author, Kishore Mahbubani, has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. This great cultural divide will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the Western ethical decline, the West has developed structural faults in its …