#281 Western Culture and Its Discontents

Published: May 2, 2022, 8:52 p.m.

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Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, \\u201cThe War on the West.\\u201d They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden\\u2019s laptop, the de-platforming of Trump and Alex Jones, the new religion of anti-racism, the problem of inequality, the 1619 Project, history of slavery, moral panics, the strange case of Michel Foucault, and other topics.

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