Well, there's something you don't see very often these days: conservative intellectuals. The old stalwarts of Ross Douthat and the AEI. The problem is though, if you skip ahead to the conclusion:

> [T]he only thing more frightening than the possibility of annihilation is the possibility that our society could coast on forever as it is—like a Rome without an Attila to sack its palaces, or a Nineveh without Yahweh to pass judgment on its crimes

- arguing, effectively, that America is too comfortable and therefore must be destroyed? In some ways this feels like a quaint thing to worry about as a pandemic sweeps the US and police and demonstrators fight in the streets, but perhaps it explains the blase approach that has been taken to those events.