268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture

Published: May 3, 2022, 7 a.m.

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Shermer and Murray discuss: what it takes to become a successful writer \\u2022 Is this \\u201cwar\\u201d on Western civilization just a necessary course correction from the sins of the past? \\u2022 Is at least some of the criticisms of Western civilization a form of revenge for past wrongs? \\u2022 CRT: If racism is not the explanation for the present Black/White differences in income, wealth, home ownership, and representation in professional careers, what is? \\u2022 Racism and Antiracism \\u2022 1619 Project \\u2022 BLM movement \\u2022 White privilege \\u2022 Colonialism and decolonizing cultural things \\u2022 Monuments \\u2022 If Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln should be cancelled, what about Marx? \\u2022 Anti-Semitism \\u2022 Objectivity and the search for truth: is this a Western tradition only? \\u2022 Reparations: don\\u2019t we have a moral obligation to right a wrong?

Douglas Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. His previous book, The Madness of Crowds, was a bestseller and a book of the year for The Times and The Sunday Times. His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost twenty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a number one bestseller in nonfiction. His new book is The War on the West in which Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric.

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