America is not a new Rome.
It is a new Carthage.
Now available in English for the first time, The American Malady, by Alain de Benoist and Giorgio Locchi, delivers an unflinching, illiberal European critique of the United States. Locchi and de Benoist argue that America’s unique ethos—rooted in relentless material striving and Enlightenment egalitarianism—has produced a culture defined by anti-authority, commercialism, and a quantitative worldview. This diagnosis charts how Puritan ideals transformed the U.S. into a “moral superpower” that, in rejecting traditional hierarchy and patriarchal authority, elevated a child-like sovereignty over the father. Resolute and provocative, The American Malady rethinks America not as a model, but as a grave danger to European civilization.
