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War on the West
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But for three books for you um two from colleagues that I have at The Spectator the war on the west by Douglas Murray I think is uh is essential reading to understanding the perspective of conservatives both in America and Britain on the cultural battles that they see going on all around them.
What they say about it
- Essential reading for conservatives2
- Passage about a painting2
- Reflecting on October 7th“what happened in October 7th”2
- Reading it on the show“reading this about it”2
The best things said about it
Douglas Murray author of the new book you must buy this The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Apr 2022 Douglas Murray's book, The War on the West, he's got this wonderful passage where he says, 'You can stand in front of a painting and you can look at it and you can say, hm, this peculiar blue pigment, was that sourced from some country that was in poverty?'.
I'm reading this about it in this Douglas Murray book called The War on the West.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 You recently wrote the book titled The War on the West which in part says that the values ideas and history of Western civilization are under attack.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022 And that really sort of gets to the title of the book that we really are at a societal war right now.
Dave Rubin The Rubin Report · May 2022 And you know you're trying to do that with your book the war in the west right it's like you see the assault on these values and you're attempting to resurrect those values.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Sep 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
The War on the West by Douglas Murray is a cultural commentary examining contemporary criticisms of Western civilization and the ideological battles shaping modern political discourse in America and Britain. The book received strong endorsements from several prominent figures. Ben Dominic recommended the work on The Ezra Klein Show, describing it as essential reading for understanding the conservative perspective on ongoing cultural conflicts. Megyn Kelly similarly urged listeners of The Megyn Kelly Show to purchase the book to learn how to prevail in what she termed an age of unreason. Additionally, several podcasters and guests referenced Murray's subsequent related work focusing on democracies, death cults, and the geopolitical landscape surrounding Israel and Hamas. Jordan Peterson, Emily Jashinsky, Joe Rogan, and Lex Fridman discussed Murray's reporting on the security challenges and historical events affecting Western civilization and the Middle East. Through these endorsements and discussions, the book and its author's broader output were positioned as critical contributions to right-leaning commentary on cultural preservation, ideological resilience, and international security concerns in an increasingly fractured global environment.
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Megyn Kelly Douglas Murray author of the new book you must buy this the war on the west how to Prevail in the age of un… 3
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“and Doug has been reading uh my dog has been reading Douglas Murray's war on the west and he's of course got so many similar thoughts to your own on how the absurdity of writing off every every bit of history as you know terrible and not worthy of consideration”
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“Douglas Murray's latest offering the war on the west how to Prevail in the age of unreason”
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“Douglas Murray author of the new book you must buy this the war on the west how to Prevail in the age of unreason”
Ben Dominic two from colleagues that I have at The Spectator the war on the west by Douglas Murray I think is is essent… 1
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“two from colleagues that I have at The Spectator the war on the west by Douglas Murray I think is is essential reading”
Jordan Peterson So I'm talking today to Douglas Murray who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and… 6
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“So I'm talking today to Douglas Murray who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.”
Discussed
“Douglas Murray's book, The War on the West, he's got this wonderful passage where he says, "You can stand in front of a painting and you can look at it and you can say, hm, um this peculiar blue pigment, was that sourced from um some country that was in poverty?”
Discussed
“How do you exactly do you tie in what you were writing about in The War on the West with what you've seen unfold since October 7th say in relationship to what you're going to speak about?”
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“So, in what manner do you view what happened in October 7th on October 7th and afterwards as a reflection of the sorts of things that you were warning about in War on the West?”
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“I'm speaking with author columnist and political commentator Douglas Murray who's been on my podcast a number of times we talked about his latest book not so long ago the war on the west we discuss how a misguided purpose leads to abject misery and hopelessness”
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“and you know you're trying to do that with your book the war in the west right it's like you see the assault on these values and you're attempting to resurrect those values”
Douglas Murray One of my favorite passages in this book is, is the passage racist gardening. 5
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“I mean I say in, the book that, there was a sort of, for instance, there was a conservative idea which was mistaken”
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“Well as I do an interview in this because I say, what's the rest of the world doing, whilst we're doing this to ourselves.”
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“- Well, I do reparations after the history chapter.”
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“And I think a number of times in the book, I use a couple of fantastic quotes of, Nietzsche from on the "Genealogy of Morals."”
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“One of my favorite passages in this book is, is the passage racist gardening.”
Joe Rogan Show everyone the book here. It's so Jesus Christ. Avoided on myself, luckily. um on democracies and death… 4
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“Show everyone the book here. It's so Jesus Christ. Avoided on myself, luckily. um on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization. Douglas Murray, did you do the audio book?”
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“Douglas Murray has a book out it's called the war on the west and it's terrible”
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“i'm reading this about it in this douglas murray book called the war on the west and that's one of the things that he talks about like that is uh the single child household in china”
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“so they would literally inject the head of the baby with a poison to kill the baby while i was in the move in the womb so that it's born still stillborn i'm reading this about it in this douglas murray book called the war on the west”
Dave Rubin - It is 'The War on the West.' Douglas Murray, how are you, my friend? 3
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“- It is 'The War on the West.' Douglas Murray, how are you, my friend?”
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“And that really sort of, gets to the title of the book that we really are at a societal war right now.”
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“So, I kind of wanna go through the chapters of the book, 'cause one thing that you do that I just think is so great in all your books, you do very few chapters, which I always think is just such a clean way of writing.”
Lex Fridman I interviewed Douglas Murray recently. He just wrote a book on Israel and Hamas called "On Democracies and… 2
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“I interviewed Douglas Murray recently. He just wrote a book on Israel and Hamas called "On Democracies and Death Cults."”
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“you recently wrote the book titled the war on the west which in part says that the values ideas and history of western civilization are under attack”
Emily Jashinsky My friend Douglas Murray just released a new book, My Friend on Democracies and Death Cults. It's quickly b… 1
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“My friend Douglas Murray just released a new book, My Friend on Democracies and Death Cults. It's quickly becoming a bestseller based on his firsthand reporting, quote reporting, yeah, we could call it that, documents the barbarity of Hamas's brutal attack on Israel on October 7th and Israel's heroic response.”
Jacob Howland Douglas Murray's book, The War on the West, he's got this wonderful passage where he says, 'You can stand i… 1
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“Douglas Murray's book, The War on the West, he's got this wonderful passage where he says, 'You can stand in front of a painting and you can look at it and you can say, hm, um this peculiar blue pigment, was that sourced from um some country that was in poverty?'”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
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“but for three books for you um two from colleagues that I have at The Spectator the war on the west by Douglas Murray I think is uh is essential reading to understanding the perspective of conservatives both in America and Britain on the cultural battles that they see going on all around them”
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Plugged
“I mean I mention this in the war on the West, but consider the extraordinary extent to which say irrational resentment can power a person's life.”
Plugged
“And as you know, I one of the things I said in that book was we are we are teaching young people born in the 21st century in America and the rest of the West that they are guilty by being by dent of being born here.”
Plugged
“I think that there there's something very important psychologically which I if I can say so which I identify in the book which is in the book before this the war on the west I talked at some length about the anti-Americanism and anti-westernism that existed in America in particular”
Plugged
“In the book before this the war on the west I talked at some length about the anti-Americanism and anti-westernism that existed in America in particular um and what I said there was that there was a very dangerous thing being set up in the United States”
Passing
“As I said in my last book, in the war on the West, we have been told that, you know, like we're guilty. I mean, this is all horseshit, by the way, but I mean, you know, that we're uniquely guilty from colonialism or uniquely guilty from slavery”
Passing
“All right, Douglas Murray, do we get right into democracies and death cult or do you want to talk about other things first?”
Plugged
“conversation with Douglas Murray, author of "The War on the West," "The Madness of Crowds," and his new book, "On Democracies and Death Cults."”
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“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of "The War on the West," "The Madness of Crowds," and his new book, "On Democracies and Death Cults."”
Plugged
“When you and I last talked on camera, we were talking about my last book "The War on the West."”
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“And I remember setting it up there in "The War on the West." I set up like this very, very risky...”
Passing
“Douglas is the author of The War on the West, The Strange Death of Europe, and The Madness of Crowds, among other books.”
Plugged
“Oh, well, one of the things is that it's a follow-on from, you know, I wrote this book The War on the West, which you and I discussed when it came out about 18 months ago.”
Plugged
“It's what I wrote about in the war on the West, the jabbing majority populations.”
Plugged
“and I one of the points of running the war on the West Was to warn against this because I just think it has such catastrophic consequences”
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“it's out now the war in the west the war in the west all formats”
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“I I gave the example in my last book in the war in the west of his rather delicious but uh Savage lesson that a group of French Sailors learned uh after Rousseau they're big russoians”
Passing
“The Madness of crowds gender race and identity 2019 and the war on the west 2022.”
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“the following is a conversation with douglas murray author of the madness of crowds gender race and identity and his most recent book the war on the west how to prevail in the age of unreason”
Passing
“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, and his most recent book, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.”
Plugged
“one of the things actually i've tried to sort of inject into the discussion through this book among other things is is a recognition that there was there were very major questions still going on in the 18th and early 19th century”
Plugged
“i say at one point in the war in the west that the argument for instance on a reparations now that goes on and it's not a not a fringe argument anymore”
Plugged
“increasingly so which is one of the things i write about from the war in the west i mean i i would argue that today in america the only group you're actually allowed to be consistently vilely racist against the white people”
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“i i quote in the war in the west this this when i read it first time a few years ago i was absolutely flawed by the brothers karamazov”
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“this isn't this is an activist academic study we're not just looking at at the law”
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“i do so in the war on the west side so i say these are the things they now use against him”
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“and i do so in the war on the west side so i say these are the things they now use against him”
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“i i have a section in the war in the west as you know where i go for karl marx with some glee”
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“i – i – have a section in the war in the west as you know where i go for karl marx with some glee”
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“and there are things i quote in this book from marx's letters not least letters to engels”
Passing
“See how I did that with my book too? Very, very clever.”
Plugged
“his brand new book is out today and it's titled the war on the west how to Prevail in the age of unreason”
Plugged
“i've just finished his latest book which is not out yet the war on the west when is it out douglas it's out on the 26th of april so um hopefully by the time people see this it will be out yeah”