THE COMING DEMISE OF SAM HUNTINGTON'S AMERICA: This curious, provocative, possibly disheartening essay is a response to Sam Huntington's lament for an American civilzation that may be going under the demographic wave. Douthat thinks that Huntington's pessimistic predictions are largely correct--but that we should grin and bear it because it will take a few hundred years more before our country goes into its inevitable decline. Hmmmmm.