Titled America Alone, said earlier work had forecast widespread international decline while also pointedly arguing that the U.S. existed in a unique situation due to superior ideological policies and values.

[1] Although explicitly forecasting despair and destruction, labeling the "impending collapse" in America about to occur "supersized", Steyn asserts that like many doomsayers he genuinely hopes for and seeks to work for a better future.

He bluntly writes that a future Chinese takeover of the disputed territory of Taiwan will only have come upon because "suburban families in Albuquerque and small businesses in Pocatello will have paid for it.”[1] Although highly critical of then President Barack Obama and the deficit-related policies of Obama's administration, Steyn condemns past occupants of the White House regardless of political party for what he sees as a recklessness and lack of foresight.

[1] While hostile to the cultural trends created by modern social liberalism, he views the core issue as that of state control of and growing politicization of what used to be considered regular life.

[2] Should the role of government continue to expand in regular peoples' lives and the expansion of debt go on, Steyn's ultimate worries are apocalyptic, with him declaring, "There will be no ‘new world order’, only a world without order, in which pipsqueak failed states go nuclear while the planet’s wealthiest nations are unable to defend their borders and are forced to adjust to the post-American era as they can.