Castro Won in the Final Inning

North Africa and the Middle East are undergoing upheavals that will forever alter the face of global politics. Europe is wrestling for its life with a swelling population of young radicals seeking the Islamization of the West. And America’s culture war is on the brink of becoming civil war as the far left brazenly presses its advantage under the presidency of one of its own. These are tumultuous, unsettling times, and a recent book lays the groundwork for coming to grips with them.

In 2009, Jamie Glazov, managing editor of David Horowitz’s FrontPage website, released his book “United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror,” an incisive, devastating examination of the psychosis behind the left’s deification of totalitarian ideologies.

Glazov’s timely followup effort is “Showdown with Evil: Our Struggle Against Tyranny and Terror,” from Mantua Books. Mantua is a Canadian press that describes itself as publishing works “relating to the struggle of the West to preserve its freedoms in the face of Islamofascism,” books that “go beyond the headlines to explore the underlying values and ideologies that explain current politics and culture wars.”

“Showdown with Evil” is the perfect embodiment of that mission statement. It is a relentlessly enlightening, entertaining and engaging collection of 29 interviews conducted over the course of the last several years by Glazov for FrontPage. As former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle states in his foreword, this is “an illuminating and important commentary on the largest issues facing America and the West,” particularly the “Islamist agenda that has replaced communism as the principal threat to Western values and civilization.”