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The War on the West : How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

Audiobook


SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail

The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers

‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’

In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?

It’s become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.

In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world’s most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray’s status as one of the world’s foremost political writers.


Narrator: Douglas Murray

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121 ratings

Ruben

29/07/2024

Excellent boek hoe de haat voor het westen en het verleden de mainstream is binnengedrongen en revolutionair meebuigen educatie negatief heeft beïnvloed. Geregeld is Murray leugens tegen gekomen van revolutionairen die rassen als breuklijn opnieuw hebben uitvergroot. Deze leugens ontmanteld hij in dit werk. De kern is dat de negatieve kanten van westers kolonialisme eigenlijk tot iedere cultuur behoort maar het westen is uniek in haar humanistische en Christelijke wereldbeeld waarin ieder mens telt en iedere cultuur ook de dode culturen bronnen zijn om van te leren niet om toe te eigenen wat niet van ons is maar om technologische en culturele vooruitgang breder te delen en daarin delen alle volkeren. Dat dit in ‘witte’ landen is ontstaan maakt het niet wit maar het is evident dat meeste mensen in de wereld graag deel willen zijn van deze cultuur omdat het voor iedereen meer kansen biedt.

English

08/10/2022

Finally some much needed criticism to the lose-lose mentality of the current political climate in the west. Nuanced and articulate.

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