War on the West

Now in vogue is the celebration of non-Western cultures and the disparagement of Western ones. Some of this reckoning is much-needed, 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.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller, this book presents a compelling argument. China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique? 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. This book challenges the notion that the flaws of the West are somehow unique, pointing out the hypocrisy and inconsistency of those who would discard the foundations of Western thought while conveniently ignoring the egregious human rights abuses and rampant racism prevalent in other parts of the world.

The author argues that the celebration of non-Western cultures at the expense of Western ones is often misguided and counterproductive, undermining the very principles and achievements that have made Western civilization the most humane and progressive in history. Murray's work is a clarion call to defend the West against the onslaught of revisionist history and moral relativism that threatens to undermine its continued existence and influence on the global stage.

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