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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.

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    The book is about how the West is under attack from within and without, and how it needs to be defended.

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“It’s an alarm bell, and it should be ringing loud.” — Jordan B. Peterson

“He gives an impassioned defense of Western culture, institutions, and politics, and why it should not be a thought crime to still believe in and indeed defend them. Read The War on the West. Do it to enlighten yourself, and do it to arm yourself with meaningful options when people spew nonsense in your presence or the presence of your children.” — Megyn Kelly

“The War on the West is a compelling must-read for anyone who cares about our western culture and where it’s headed.” — Newt Gingrich

“As a compendium of the absurdities of our age, The War on the West would be hard to surpass.” — National Review

About the Author

Douglas Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. His latest publication, 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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broadside Books (April 26, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063162024
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063162020
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
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Customers find the book provides good insight into the current cultural wars. They say it's an excellent book on current social issues, with plenty of examples and helpful spoon-feeding of obvious facts. They also appreciate the historical perspective, and the author's style is easy to follow and makes his points effectively.

"A must read for everyone! Educational and insightful, Douglas skillfully authors this book to articulate and explain the cultural revolution we are..." Read more

"My only criticism is that his insights are so insightful that they are disturbing...." Read more

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"Being non-white myself, I found the book thought provoking. In my opinion, his strongest point is that non-whites are voting with our feet...." Read more

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"...Some pages are normal and legible; on others, the print is so faded, they are unreadable. Harper Collins should review their quality control...." Read more

Perfect reference source to rebut woke policies
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Murray is truly one of the brightest minds of our time. I share many of the same views that he lays out in his most recent book. The topics range from illegal immigration, crime, mandates, CRT’s place in elementary schools, lockdowns, the false narrative that most (white) Americans are racists from the moment of birth, the governments role and overreach that is becoming more prevalent by the day, the rising cost of living, censorship, etcThough I I’ve read many authors who discuss similar topics, Murray brings data, facts, and statistics that are laid out both eloquently and simply. I would almost consider this a reference guide for rebutting progressive leftists and they’re unpopular policy ideas. Of course, only if they’re willing to have an open, respectful dialogue debate exchanging differing opinions. Unlikely for most.
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Melissa
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2024
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A must read for everyone! Educational and insightful, Douglas skillfully authors this book to articulate and explain the cultural revolution we are currently embroiled in to eradicate Western Civilization. To keep our culture, defend our freedoms and stand up to the wave of radical ideologies, this is a great book to arm yourself with the education you need to stand against the propaganda.
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Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars Important reading
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My only criticism is that his insights are so insightful that they are disturbing. Critical reading for anyone that cares about the future of liberal democracies.
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GSJ
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
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This book is straightforward in analyzing what is currently underway in the West. All Whites should read this book and especially white youth. Murray in his concluding remarks will strengthen whites as to our past history and stop any guilt that has been forced upon you.
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Leo
4.0 out of 5 stars Overall a terrific, albeit expected read
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2022
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Having already read his two former publications, all the while keeping a close eye on most of the goings-on surrounding what this book tackles as it's central subject matter, this one was pretty much what I expected. Though it should be noted that it did have some exceptions of just gallingly unbelievable examples I simply could not have conjured up on my own.

Nevertheless, Mr. Murray delivers here what many will have heard him elaborate on over the years in so many of his interviews online, but in a written form with a clear path and purpose. What struck me as most hilarious about his presence in the public eye, though, was when I finally decided to visit the Wikipedia-article on him to see what was there.

If you ever need further confirmation that Wikipedia has truly fallen from grace in recent years, get to know Mr. Murray first on a “personal” basis (by listening to him speak on many subject matters and/or read his books) and, once you feel you have a good neutral grasp on who he is and what he thinks, without feeling the need to label and slander him at every turn, visit his Wikipedia-page. It is so ungenerously and blatantly slanderous and demonizing it is actually almost, but only almost, funny. His own Wikipedia-page confirm so many aspects of what he alludes to in his three latest publications.

Needless to say, most of the more overwhelmingly negative feedback for this book that may be gleaned here are also equally quite lacking in any content of consequence to what this book is actually trying to get across. One overwhelmingly finds either empty dismissals accusing him of racism and bigotry, several of which are from people who self-admittedly did not even bother finishing the book (oh, the irony), or those who take the least significant potential errors in research as emblematic of what this book contains in its entirety. One in particular took issue with what seemed to be Mr. Murray's error in claiming that a certain college was the only such named college by a living person at the time.

If you actually read this book, only to either resort to a course of “ad hominism”, or simply choosing these kinds of inconsequential errors as the most "appalling examples of shoddy research", then you have either failed to recognize, or choose to turn a blind eye to, just how truly astoundingly far off the deep-end and off the rails certain narratives in our culture have become. I think a good exercise in imagination for anyone would be to try and imagine scenarios of public discourse that would have been genuinely more unreasonable than the real-world examples covered in this book, were they to actually happen – and there are many of them, both within the book and not. The subject matter of this book really does deal with some of the limit cases in modernity for insanity, ideological posession, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and downright incoherent and irreconcilable world-views.

On the other end of the criticism-spectrum, we seem to have devout and already "in the know"-people complaining that Mr. Murray omits to mention theories concerning the idea that, for example, immigration is a planned and very much coordinated attack on the west (see Kalergi Plan for more on this), and that to have failed to do so is a cowardly move.

There seems to be no way of even trying to get basic sentiments on such a topic across anymore without people from all sides rushing in to hurl all of their own personal spins on every detail, both miniscule and grand, towards a work such as this. To take just the “Kalergi Plan” here for a moment: This plan has in it some rather bold and worrying claims attached to it, were it to be only half-true. Therefore, to merely mention, or devote just a section or even half a chapter as a way to sate such an out-of-place complaint would be ludicrous and counter-productive. A plan of this sort involves such massive movements of peoples, and such massive decision-making considerations within a whole slew of nations, that such a claim is in need of at least an entire volume of its own before the idea can even be entertained and weighed sufficiently. To insist that such an idea should be given an off-the-cuff mention would be a complete disservice to what the author is trying to show, and this should be glaringly obvious.

For those who have not read it yet, no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, see if you can't read it dispassionately and take it for what it is. Perhaps observe when and why, for whatever reason, you seem to get agitated or nervous. Note how, in the presence of the text you are reading, nothing is coming at you other than words, and your feelings of outrage should actually be something you are always on your toes against. It is, in most cases when reading or hearing a claim, an invitation to unreason.

If you can reasonably dismiss or counter-argue a claim, good for you. But what Mr. Murray manages to do most well, in my humble opinion, is to mount a position that is reasonable enough so that anyone still interested in justice, fairness, true equality among the "races", et cetera, should be able to come away from this book having understood more about some of what has taken place in the last decade or so in this area, on both sides, without throwing a fit – regardless of where you may opine on the subject.

If you do, however, you have in all likelihood become a prisoner of a certain ideology. This does not mean to say that Mr. Murray does not carry ideas and opinions of his own, but he does so with the values that certainly exemplify what we most aspire to have them be in this so-called "West" – civility and openness for discussion. And that quality is indeed sorely lacking in this day and age, and therefore if you actually do believe in these values, you should be able to read a work such as this with a clear and unpolluted mind.

Peace out!
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Dee Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars De-programming
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2023
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Every time I read a book by Douglas Murray, this is my third, I feel like I have been bracingly slapped in the face. "Wake up" is the message. I appreciated the book's historical perspective. The passages on resentment and Nietsche were very powerful and I will be pondering those bits of wisdom for the duration. Just excellent insights. The book is important and the stakes are high and as a result, it is an emotional experience to read it, and take in all of its implications. At least for me. For many years I accepted anti-racist, anti-colonialist critiques of Western society without question, and most of my friends still do. In fact, it is almost impossible to talk to any of them about even a slightly modified point of view. So I am isolated these days. A lifelong Democrat, I find myself (silently) feeling grateful to Republicans for pushing back on CRT in the schools and for questioning inappropriate books in school libraries. At the same time, I am as appalled by the excesses of the right as I am by the extremism of the left. Does no one have common sense any more? The fact that it is almost impossible to even discuss most issues with either side tells me there is something deeply wrong with our discourse.The evolution of my thought has been long process, but at its base, was my willingness to notice when ideology collided with what I had experienced in a lifetime of thinking about racial divides and engaging people who were not like me. These discordant moments caused me to try and dig deeper into what was going on. Sometimes I found that I was not thinking deeply enough. But more often I did understand exactly what was going on. Much of what I was hearing and reading was exaggerated or downright lies or distortions. Murray's framing of recent events as a moral panic is apt. I can't find anything in the book to take issue with really. I don't think, though, that the people who might benefit most from this book will read it. One barrier, not the only one, is that the alarm over the Jan. 6 violence will cause people on the left to dig in even deeper, as the other side seems to be doing. This is very much too bad. Praying that our country will get through these dangerous times and that we may regain our belief in ourselves and our tradition and our future.
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Gabriel Canfield
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in Brazil on May 11, 2024
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A very important book to understand the modern times we live in. The anti-west mentality that is spread out in every part of our society.
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Joseph M. Lauzon
5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and Informative
Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2024
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Highly readable and informative. Whether you agree with Mr. Douglas or not, he provides a compelling and well reasoned argument providing ample amount of evidence to support his claims. We need more intelligent and rational discussions in regards to the issues he brings to the table. And yes, he does state aloud what most would never, making it rather refreshing read.
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Carlos
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro de política
Reviewed in Mexico on January 17, 2024
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Douglas Murray es un excelente escritor, muy buen libro, lo disfruté mucho y aprendí mucho también !
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ClaireEm
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant arguments
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2024
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As usual Murray delivers a brilliantly exposed picture of today’s sad reality. A must read because full of well-researched facts.
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annka
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book...
Reviewed in Italy on June 6, 2024
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...if you don't want to get angry, desperate, revolted, and furious! I thought I knew what was going on in the West, but this book proved I was completely out of the loop. But if you still want to catch up on what's happening in this part of the world, read it! Just be prepared!
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