New Decline of the West Podcast here. Didn’t plan this, but had to get at you after the madness of the last couple days. Didn’t plan on posting any more to the MartyrMade feed, but I liked this discussion so I thought I’d share it. If you like it, please subscribe to The Decline of the West. If not, tell me to get lost and wait for the next MartyrMade, which is on its way! On July 26, 2016, two young French Arabs announcing themselves as “Soldiers of ISIS” burst into a French church during morning Mass. You know the rest. On the same day, a 26-year-old Japanese man stalked through the halls of a Japanese hospital for the mentally disabled to carry out a plan he had outlined to the Japanese government in February letter. Something has shifted beneath our feet, and we might be cracking up. Listen on iTunes. Get John’s book, The Age of Catastrophe, to read about the Aum Shinrikyo attack on the Tokyo subway system, the Columbine spree killers, the sinking of the Titanic, the Bhopal chemical disaster, and much more.