We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism was published in hardback on September 29, 2009, by Crown Forum, a division of Random House, U.S.A. (New York). A paperback edition was published the following year.
The book is an attempt to recall American conservativism from the blithe optimism into which it has slipped, to summon conservatives back to a darker, more truthful and realistic view of human nature and human affairs.
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Chapter headings are as follows.
- A Call to Pessimism
- Diversity: Nothing to Celebrate
- Politics: Show Business for Ugly People
- Culture: Pooped Out
- Sex: Surplus to Requirements
- Education: Yale or Jail
- Human Nature: Ask Your Aunt
- Religion: What Shall We Do To Be Saved?
- War: Invading the World
- Immigration: Inviting the World
- Foreigners: Inspecting the World
- The Economy: In Hock to the World
- The Audacity of Hopelessness
There is half a page of acknowledgments but no bibliograpy, no endnotes, no appendices, no illustrations, and no index, the book having no pretensions to be scholarly. When I quote some person or book, I identify my source in the text. An index is no more necessary than it would be for a novel. (The only novel I know of that does have an index is Pale Fire — not, in my opinion, a literary model anyone should emulate.) I have, in fact, tried to take a light-hearted approach to the coming apocalypse, so far as it is possible to do so without contradicting my main theme.
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I have put up a couple of web pages you can link to from here, or from the navigation box at top right. One is a list of all editions of the book that emerge; the other is a blog where I list some points raised by readers, together with my responses.