Summary
"Blunt and prophetic, [the author] makes the case that the decay of Western civilization is alarmingly advanced. Our sickly, sub-pagan state resembles a bombed-out city. We have to assess the damage, but merely lamenting it does no good. There is work to be done."--Jacket flap. Full description
- Introduction : the rubble
- Giving things their proper names : the restoration of truth-telling
- Except the Lord build the house : restoring a sense of beauty
- A mind is a terrible thing to baste : restoring the school
- Man by nature desires to know : rebuilding the college
- Repudiating the sexual revolution : restoring manhood
- Restoring womanhood : building homes, not houses
- Work while it is yet day : making good things again
- Playing upon the waters : bringing play back to life
- Idiots no more : recovering the polis
- Pilgrims, returning home.