The Path of European Self-Destruction.

 

...But Dr. Duchesne is correct, I believe, to see these developments as surface phenomena best understood against the much larger and deeper background of our civilization’s loss of self-confidence, a loss due in large measure to the radicalization of certain of its own inherent tendencies. It was only against such a background that the Frankfurt School was able to achieve what it did.

https://www.unz.com/article/the-path-of-european-self-destruction/