Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: every crisis we face today, we have faced before. His "five essential crises" are: The Crisis of Reality: Is there such a thing as objective truth-and even if there is, can "virtual reality" replace it? The Crisis of the Body: Not just the "transgender" insanity, but the push for a "transhumanist" future The Crisis of Meaning: Evolution-both biological and cultural-is a process of endless replication, of copying. But is there an original model that gives us an aspiration to aim for? Do our lives and actions have meaning? The Crisis of Religion: Science has not eliminated man's religious impulse, but rather misdirected it-and wrongly dismissed the profound philosophical plausibility of Judeo-Christian revelation. The Crisis of the Regime: Has America reached a point of inevitable collapse? Republican government was meant to end the destructive cycle of regimes risi