The Madness of Crowds
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: A Call to the Sane - Beauty, Truth, & Purpose | Douglas Murray | EP 472
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastDouglas is the author of 'The War on the West,' 'The Strange Death of Europe,' and 'The Madness of Crowds,' among other books.
- Episode: Why Can Nobody Think For Themselves Anymore? - Douglas Murray (4K)
Podcast: Modern WisdomOkay, um, but you know, your book, 'The Madness of Crowds,' talks about the collapse of grand narratives.
- Episode: Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastYes, well to me, like I said, a little bit of poison is good for the town. And that's always a—I talked about this in my last book in The Manners of Crowds.
- Episode: Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastAnd that's always a—I talked about this in my last book in The Manners of Crowds.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentMadness of Crowds, I recommend everybody go out there and buy the book.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentBy the way, a very quick example of that, if I may say this in The Madness of Crowds, is why we have the weird thing of people being thrown out of their character group if they think the wrong things.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentOne of the things that I say at one point in The Madness of Crowds is, if you play the intersectional game, including the representation game, on the terms of the intersectionalists, you actually may get yourself to a situation where all you've done is create a new hierarchy.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentThe intersectionalists, who I critique in The Madness of Crowds, have always had a problem with class.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentThat doesn't mean that we shouldn't treat trans people with respect, but the trans question—and I say this in the last chapter of The Madness of Crowds—is a very little-known question.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentAnd I explain in The Madness of Crowds why the trans issue is quite unlike all the other bits of LGBT.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentI would say this, first of all, by the way, I say in the gay chapter and I say in the trans chapter in The Madness of Crowds that the LGBT issue—I said this ahead of Dave Chappelle, I might add by the way—I said the LGBT bit of the alphabet doesn't add together.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentI say this in The Madness of Crowds: to read a hugely celebrated black writer today like, like Toni Morrison is to read somebody who writes more angrily about America than James Baldwin did when there were many, many more things to be angry about.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentAnd one of the oddities of the situation in America in particular is—and I say this in The Madness of Crowds—the extent to which, after these battles are won, the wannabe dragon slayers who would have loved to have been with them with Martin Luther King in the march on Washington, who would have loved to have been the Stonewalling, who would have loved to have been with the Suffragettes, find themselves weirdly arguing more vociferously, unpleasantly than the people who were fighting the real fights.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentAnd he, in his extraordinary perception on this, is something I pick up and run with in The Madness of Crowds where I say the civil rights fight in the 1960s was a real dragon slaying.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentAnd it's certainly fair to say that elements of the left were more vocal, more involved in each of the rights movements that I'm talking about in The Madness of Crowds than they were on the right.
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentNow, here's one way of doing that—I say in The Madness of Crowds, what if we could agree on a certain definition and, indeed, objective?
- Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Podcast: The RealignmentI'm very keen that people realize the two things: first of all, I completely agree with you, and it’s very important to state—I stated at the opening of The Madness of Crowds—every single one of the rights issues I'm talking about starts not only in a good place but an exceptionally admirable place.