Robert Kagan.
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

This is a previously published essay expanded into a short book. If you've been reading Victor Davis Hanson's essays at National Review Online then you won't find much new here. Still, I'm glad I read this book.

I was prompted to read the book (which had been collecting dust in my stacks of unread books) by George Weigel's essay Europe’s Problem — and Ours which appeared in First Things, February 2004, No. 140.