Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
War on the West
Buy on Amazon"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."
The Pilgrim's Progress
Buy on Amazon"I say at one point in The War on the West that the argument, for instance, on reparations now that goes on—and it's not a fringe argument anymore; some people say, 'Oh, you're pulling up this fringe argument.'"
The Pilgrim's Progress
Buy on Amazon"And by the way, there are plenty of white people who experience racism as well; there are plenty of white people who do and have done, and increasingly so, which is one of the things I write about in The War on the West."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"Yes, 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"And that's always a—I talked about this in my last book in The Manners of Crowds."
The Life And Fate Of Vasily Grossman
Buy on Amazon"Also partly because of having seen bits of it in the Middle East and elsewhere. I mention this because Grossman in the middle of Life and Fate takes time out and provides a three-page explanation, a three-page description of anti-Semitism."
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Buy on Amazon"Nevertheless, Winston Churchill is somebody, I mean, just reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is an incredible figure to me."
The Pilgrim's Progress
Buy on Amazon"Sure, sure; I mean, I have a section in the War in the West where I go for Karl Marx with some glee."
The Pilgrim's Progress
Buy on Amazon"In fact, when I was doing the audiobook for The War on the West, I had to decide: Will I read out the quotes from Marx or not?"
The Strange Death of Europe
Buy on Amazon"There was a period around the time I wrote my book 'The Strange Death of Europe.'"
The doors of perception
Buy on Amazon"I remember I got far too young in age; I read the Doors of Perception of Aldous Huxley."
Stefan Zweig
Buy on Amazon"Um, I mean that's one of my favorite books, Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, including the descriptions of what it was like trying to have sex in pre-First World War Vienna."