I agree. The Englishman has been hollowed out by decades of welfare state enervation and feminized by the usual suspects.

If you haven't already, and want to read a really depressing but highly entertaining and well-written commentary on England's decay, try "Our Culture, or What's Left of It" and "Not with a Bang but a Whimper" by Theodore Dalrymple.

This brilliant guy is who I thought I had found in Christopher Hitchens, but Hitchens is a cynical prig in comparison. I think the big difference is Hitchens' strident, boorish, ugly atheism that worships materialism vs. Dalrymple's civilized, tolerant, polite atheism that appreciates Christianity's cultural value.

Sam Harris is and has always been a lightweight, a soft-spoken monotone boor.