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The War on the West Hardcover – 26 April 2022

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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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“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

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broadside Books (26 April 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063162024
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063162020
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.67 x 22.86 cm
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  • CGF
    5.0 out of 5 stars An eye-opener …
    Reviewed in Germany on 9 January 2024
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    … if you struggle to make head or tail of what is happening in today‘s Western World this book puts it into perspective … essential reading for everyone that still has some hope left that the West can be saved from mediocracy, restrictive thinking and people of unreason so as to build a future on the achievements and strong legacy of its heritage …
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  • Asif
    5.0 out of 5 stars Listen carefully
    Reviewed in Germany on 13 April 2024
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    One of the best book I read lately
    So realistic and well presented
    It reflects our current situation and what and can happens if we will not woke up
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  • Randy Martin
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
    Reviewed in Germany on 26 January 2024
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    One of the best books and of most relevance for today.
    The author has a great writing style. Most importantly he has clearly defined the crisis we are in.
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  • christophKa
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wake up call
    Reviewed in Germany on 5 December 2023
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    A fascinating book and a wake up call for everyone who has still doubts why we should defend Western values. Douglas Murray is one of the most brilliant and honest intellectuals we have in Europe. Thank you from Austria.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • MG
    5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting point of view
    Reviewed in Germany on 30 April 2022
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    Douglas Murray, presents here an interesting discussion about and dissection of some of anti western thinking that has spilled out of academia into the real world. It is fine to criticize people of the past but it has to be fair and logical nor can people alive today be vested with the sins real or imagined of their ancestors. A lot of the good things we enjoy today are the result of hard work and sacrifice of those in the past. Douglas argues that Therefore a certain amount of gratitude is appropriate despite disagreeing with peoples world view in some cases.
    11 people found this helpful
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  • hblnk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wise, timely but also very funny
    Reviewed in Germany on 1 August 2022
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    The subject would easily have lead to a sour study and harsh settling of accounts, but it does not. This book comes at the right time and might save us from peril. But it is not just wise, but also very funny.
    5 people found this helpful
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  • Truckwu
    5.0 out of 5 stars Douglas Murray at his best
    Reviewed in Germany on 8 August 2022
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    Hier analysiert Murray den Krieg gegen den Westen.

    Durch Menschen, die im Wohlstand des Westens aufgewachsen sind und alle zivilisatorischen Eigenschaften des Westens selbst erlebt/genossen haben.

    Und er gibt gute Argumentationen , dieser selbst-/ zerstörerischen Attitüde zu begegnen.
    9 people found this helpful
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  • Matias Berg
    3.0 out of 5 stars many, too many examples, but very few explanations
    Reviewed in Germany on 8 May 2022
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    The book was rather disappointing. We learn a lot of details from this "war", but little background and hardly any explanations. The author has collected hundreds of examples over the last years where the culture of the West was attacked, deprecated, made contemptible, accused of many crimes. But somehow we have read about these things too often for this to be really interesting anymore.

    I've always wondered: What are the motives for this "war"? And why is it directed only against the West, but never against the Arab world or against China? Unfortunately, the author cannot tell us. In the chapter "Gratitude," he gives resentment as the main explanation, in the tradition of Nietzsche: The disadvantaged of this world cannot bear the noble, the great and the magnificent, and must therefore fight it and make it contemptible, pull it down to their own level at the bottom. This 'war' is their revenge.

    But this explanation is a bit too simplistic for me. For it is not primarily the disadvantaged of this world who denigrate the West and blame it for all the evils of this world, it is parts of the Western elite itself, yes: it is a kind of self-hatred of the West.
    But where does this self-hatred come from? Unfortunately, the book does not provide an answer.
    Instead, examples, more examples....

    Unfortunately, the book is quite superficial. The 'big picture' of this war, of this movement that could be called "The West and its discontents", remain in the dark.
    In his conclusion, the author writes : "This [Western] culture that it is now so fashionable to deprecate, and which people across the West have been encouraged and incentivized to deprecate, remains the only culture in the world that not only tolerates but encourages such a dialogue against itself. It is the only culture that actually rewards its critics." - That is true, but why is this the case ? That remains a riddle the author does not solve. Actually, he does not even really try to solve it.

    Conclusion: If you are looking for many examples of hatred (and self-hatred) of the West and its culture, then this is a great book for you. If you are looking for explanations and background and some theory, then you will be disappointed.
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  • Douglas Macdonald
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read and heed the lessons of this book.
    Reviewed in Canada on 24 August 2024
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    Douglas Murray is a wise, knowledgeable, thoughtful and extremely brave person. He is doing all societies a great service tackling these issues in such a careful and analytical manner. We, especially the West, ignore his observations and conclusions at our peril. I believe this book is the Must Read for our times.
    Thank you Douglas!
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  • Gabriel Canfield
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
    Reviewed in Brazil on 11 May 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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  • Carlos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Libro de política
    Reviewed in Mexico on 17 January 2024
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    Douglas Murray es un excelente escritor, muy buen libro, lo disfruté mucho y aprendí mucho también !
    Excelente compra !
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  • Dee Dee
    5.0 out of 5 stars De-programming
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 August 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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  • Cardona
    5.0 out of 5 stars Necesaria,
    Reviewed in Spain on 5 November 2024
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    Un punto catastrofista
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