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

How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

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

By: Douglas Murray
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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.

©2022 Douglas Murray (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers
Civilisation Europe Freedom & Security Great Britain Political Science Politics & Government World War Thought-Provoking Social justice

Critic Reviews

‘Murray shows not just how every aspect of western society has come under the iconoclasts’ gaze – from mathematics to music, Kew Gardens to Jane Austen – but how flimsy their case often is.’ – The Sunday Times

‘Murray writes with wonderful lucidity about the many fronts on which the West is waging war against itself. And he writes with a sense of urgency.’ – Real Clear Politics

‘Well executed… a spirited defence against the Left's assault on the Western tradition.’ – The Daily Telegraph

The War on the West is a monumental book leading to several pivotal realisations.’ – Lotus Eaters

Meticulous, measuredThe War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery.’ – The Spectator

Praise for Douglas Murray and The Madness of Crowds

‘Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today.’ – Bernard-Henry Levy

‘This is an author who specialises in expressing what everyone sort of knows already and is afraid to say…Well argued, well supported, and well observed.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Simply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I’d just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing – or indeed, provocative – than sanity.’ – Sam Harris

‘His latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone. He mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy and embarrassingly blatant contradictions that run rife through the current ‘woke’ vouge.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech… A truthful look at today’s most divisive issues.’ – Jordan B. Peterson

‘Extraordinary. Magnificent. Searing. Necessary. I salute il miglior fabbro. ‘And whether they listen or fail to listen… they will know that the prophet has been among them’ (Ezekiel 2:5)’ – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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This book should be in all schools to undo the brainwashing of our current society.

A must read

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When the history of modern culture is written, there will be a chapter on Douglas. Lucid, erudite and clinically reasoned. A brilliantly crafted book with narration that only Douglas can deliver. A jab in the arm of concentrated anti-woke. Forget Occam.....it's Murray's Razor henceforth.

Classic Murray

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Very thorough and often hilarious. Douglas has compiled examples that paint a much larger picture of the future.

Worth a listen

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Murray does something special here, he stands up for Western Civilisation. Ideas create the world, and bad ideas can corrode good ones. we are in the midst of a hurricane of bad ideas that are dissolving the very foundations of the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. We need to wake up and defend it before it is lost.

Far better than I expected.

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This book is a necessary read for those who rest within the leftist 'mainstream' and operate within a general, undisclosed state of ennui against the 'West' and 'Capitalism'. I wish us all luck in earnestly bringing Douglas' brilliant and timely work to them.

The most important cultural reflection of 2022

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