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

<p>Shermer and Murray discuss: what it takes to become a successful writer • Is this “war” on Western civilization just a necessary course correction from the sins of the past? • Is at least some of the criticisms of Western civilization a form of revenge for past wrongs? • 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? • Racism and Antiracism • 1619 Project • BLM movement • White privilege • Colonialism and decolonizing cultural things • Monuments • If Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln should be cancelled, what about Marx? • Anti-Semitism • Objectivity and the search for truth: is this a Western tradition only? • Reparations: don’t we have a moral obligation to right a wrong?</p> <p>Douglas Murray is an associate editor of <em>The Spectator</em>. His previous book, <em>The Madness of Crowds</em>, was a bestseller and a book of the year for <em>The Times</em> and <em>The Sunday Times</em>. His previous book, <em>The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam</em>, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost twenty weeks on the <em>Sunday Times</em> bestseller list and was a number one bestseller in nonfiction. His new book is <em>The War on the West</em> in which Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric.</p>