Scandals of The Camp of the Saints
The Camp of The Saints by Jean Raspail is a novel of disaster - of Western European Civilization - brought about by millions of illegal alien invaders. While once considered scandalous heresy, the story is becoming all to real.
The Camp is not a novel about the West against the rest; it's about a civil war and dissolution within the West.
It unveils our current reality where the arrival of a million migrants are routine numbers.
The novel is scandalous because it is concerned with the failings and defects of us - that is, of Westerners. It punctures the illusion that our civilization is invulnerable. It is the scandal of fragility, narcissism, and defeat. In the novel, the institutions that are most cherished and trusted decide that they have to destroy their own people in order to build something better from the ashes of a destroyed civilization.
Here is a panel discussion of the novel: Mass Effects, Malaise, and Mass Immigration, 2025 American Politics and Government Summit, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2025:
Speakers:
Dominic Green – Wall Street Journal
Nathan Pinkoski – Center for Renewing America
Colin Redemern – Director of Education, American Reformer
Rusty Reno – First Things
Amy Wax – Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Ethan Rundell – Vauban Books
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The Camp of the Saints: A New English Edition - Jean Raspail's novel is once again available, by Nathan Pinkoski, 3 July 2025.