That article, as do so many others, rests its reasoning on a whole bunch of premises that are not facts, and there is not the slightest whiff of uncertainty throughout the entire piece. Granted it's an opinion piece so one shouldn't expect too much, but so much of what one reads in the "news" these days is written similarly: some actual facts, but plenty of opinions presented as fact. I believe much of our post-secondary educational institutions are similar. It's no wonder hardly anyone can tell the difference between fact and opinion anymore.

I'd argue this intellectual Achilles heel is one of the fundamental enablers of the political/gender/etc wars going on right now in Western societies, and this large and growing lack of social cohesion may ultimately play a crucial element in the "China vs US battle for #1 superpower". Anyone who projects into the future based on the premise that Western Liberal democracies are simply unbeatable (Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others) would benefit from even mild reading of history.