Spengler Without Fascist Baggage

In the United States, Oswald Spengler’s decline thesis permeated literature, political theory, and elite education (from Fitzgerald to Huntington and Kissinger) while avoiding the discrediting association it had in Germany. Despite this wide influence, there are few critical English editions and limited rigorous scholarship, letting the mood and slogans outpace the text. — This helps explain why 'decline of the West' rhetoric keeps resurfacing in U.S. politics and media untethered to careful reading or academic gatekeeping.