Podcast: The Realignment
Episode: The Realignment Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Strange Death of Europe
Buy on Amazon"He wrote The Strange Death of Europe back in 2017 about immigration."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"I'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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"Now, 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?"
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"And 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"And 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"And 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"I 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"I 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"And I explain in The Madness of Crowds why the trans issue is quite unlike all the other bits of LGBT."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"That 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"The intersectionalists, who I critique in The Madness of Crowds, have always had a problem with class."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"One 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"By 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."
The Madness of Crowds
Buy on Amazon"Madness of Crowds, I recommend everybody go out there and buy the book."