The War on the West, Douglas Murray
The War on the West, Douglas Murray
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The War on the West

Bestseller

Author: Douglas Murray

Narrator: Douglas Murray

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the “America is a racist country” bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and “pro-justice” movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests.If the West is to survive, it must be defended. The War on the West is not only an incisive takedown of foolish anti-Western arguments but also a rigorous new apologetic for civilization itself.

About Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include the Sunday Times number-one bestsellers The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason; The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam; and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. He has been Associate Editor and regular writer at the Spectator magazine since 2012, and contributes to other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun, the Mail on Sunday and the New York Post. A regular guest on broadcast news channels, he has also spoken at numerous universities, parliaments, the O2 Arena, and the White House.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on June 28, 2022

Completely aggravated, bordering on angry, it took a long time, (for me), to read this book. I had to stop reading, go walk it off and come back to it numerous times. Douglas Murray breaks down “The War on the West” by showing how the basic tenents of America’s foundation have been eroded. He looks......more

Goodreads review by Derek on April 30, 2022

A masterpiece and tour de force Mr. Murray, I may not agree with everything about your politics but I am proud as an American that you had the courage to write this book. It is a clarion call for all of us to reject this noxious divisiveness that is happening around race. Thank you and enjoy this 5 s......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 16, 2022

I have some problems with this book. The book is hyperbolic with the introduction in particular laced with catastrophising, the book weaves together lurid anecdotes and states this a widespread problem but he rarely shows that they are in fact representative, often he ascribes motivations/attitudes......more

Goodreads review by David on April 30, 2022

A worthy successor to crowds, with more than enough new and original material to make it completely fresh. By now, I've learned what to expect from Murray. For this detailed study of ‘western anti-westernism’, he uses deft and carefully considered arguments to make his points; always careful to avoid......more

Goodreads review by Darryl on June 04, 2023

Douglas Kear Murray is a British author and political commentator. He is an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine "The Spectator" and has written columns for numerous other publications including "The Wall Street Journal". French philosopher, Bernard-He......more