The West is in crisis — but it has been before. In How to Save the West, Spencer Klavan, Oxford-trained classicist and host of the Young Heretics podcast, confronts the five defining crises of our age: the erosion of objective reality, the assault on the human body, the collapse of meaning, the misdirection of religious impulse, and the fragility of republican government. Far from a eulogy, this is a diagnosis — and a prescription drawn from the deepest wells of Western thought.

Klavan turns to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and the Founding Fathers not as relics but as living guides, demonstrating that every crisis threatening civilization today has been faced — and overcome — before. The wisdom encoded in the masterpieces of Western culture is not merely academic; it is the inheritance that ordinary people must reclaim if the West is to survive. This is a book for anyone who suspects the world has gone mad and wants to know they are not alone — and that there is a way through.