Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-05-12
Books mentioned on 546. The West Is Too Weak For Radical Islam | Douglas Murray
What really happened on October 7th? What does it reveal about Israel, Hamas, the West—and the future of civilization?
Jordan Peterson discussed War on the West by Douglas Murray. Douglas Murray discussed Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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War on the West
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.
Discussed“So I'm talking today to Douglas Murray who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.”
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is a sweeping masterpiece depicting the brutality and human ramifications of the Eastern Front, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism during World War II.
Discussed“There's this rule, as you know, that I go into in the book that I've mowled on a lot that I got from the great Soviet Jewish writer Vasley Gman, who I who appears intermittently throughout the book. Um, and Vasley Gman had this terrific dictim in the middle of life and fate where he says, "Tell me what you”
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Plugged On Democracies and Death Cults
“So I'm talking today to Douglas Murray who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.”
Plugged On Democracies and Death Cults
“So, Mr. Murray, I read your book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.”
Plugged War on the West
“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.”