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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason Hardcover – 28 April 2022
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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers
‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?
It’s become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world’s most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray’s status as one of the world’s foremost political writers.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date28 April 2022
- Dimensions15.9 x 3.1 x 24 cm
- ISBN-100008492492
- ISBN-13978-0008492496
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‘Murray shows not just how every aspect of western society has come under the iconoclasts’ gaze – from mathematics to music, Kew Gardens to Jane Austen – but how flimsy their case often is.’ – The Sunday Times
‘Murray writes with wonderful lucidity about the many fronts on which the West is waging war against itself. And he writes with a sense of urgency.’ – Real Clear Politics
‘Well executed… a spirited defence against the Left's assault on the Western tradition.’ – The Daily Telegraph
‘The War on the West is a monumental book leading to several pivotal realisations.’ – Lotus Eaters
‘Meticulous, measured… The War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery.’ – The Spectator
Praise for Douglas Murray and The Madness of Crowds
‘Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today.’ – Bernard-Henry Levy
‘This is an author who specialises in expressing what everyone sort of knows already and is afraid to say…Well argued, well supported, and well observed.’ – Lionel Shriver
‘Simply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I’d just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing – or indeed, provocative – than sanity.’ – Sam Harris
‘His latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone. He mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy and embarrassingly blatant contradictions that run rife through the current ‘woke’ vouge.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech… A truthful look at today’s most divisive issues.’ – Jordan B. Peterson
‘Extraordinary. Magnificent. Searing. Necessary. I salute il miglior fabbro. ‘And whether they listen or fail to listen… they will know that the prophet has been among them’ (Ezekiel 2:5)’ – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
About the Author
Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. He has been Associate Editor at The Spectator magazine since 2012 and has written regularly there, as well as for other publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Mail on Sunday and National Review. A regular guest on the BBC and other news channels, he has also spoken at numerous universities, parliaments, the O2 Arena and the White House.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins (28 April 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0008492492
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008492496
- Dimensions : 15.9 x 3.1 x 24 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Don’t be lured into thinking this is simply a rebuke of wokism.
It’s a deeply researched exploration of the tectonic societal shifts that have taken place over the last 50 years, shifts so profound that the West self immolates from within and thereby unconsciously enables its detractors from Russia to China. Simultaneously from ‘within’, our enlightenment values are taken for granted by the next generations with such an unknowing entitlement that it’s in danger of becoming their defining characteristic: ‘Monsters aren’t real, until they are…’
On race, Murray’s deconstruction of the recent third wave racial polemicists is fierce and logical, whilst pinpointing the ubiquitous penetration of Marxism in our academia as the fundamental cause. However, his writing is also witty and optimistic, hilariously highlighting the logic traps that the likes of Robin di Angelo have got themselves into. He also generously argues that the generations before us should not be targeted for cancellation - but for gratitude.
Taking the politics aside… love him or loathe him, the depth of research and the lucidity of Murray’s prose makes this addition to the ‘culture war canon’ both a formidable riposte and a potential catalyst for a much needed realignment in the narrative, perhaps towards the centre? Is it too naieve to hope that it will be read and debated by the open minded? I hope not…
Douglas Murray does a good job of highlighting areas where the Woke Left has succeeded in undermining national pride and our confidence in our history. Through a mixture of deceit, exaggeration, psychological manipulation and unevidenced assertion, it has taken to the airways on social media and then mainstream media. Peddling nonsense values such as equity, equality and diversity, it has convinced many that we all fall short of what really matters. The fact that there is so little pushback against these assertions only shows just how cowered ordinary people have been by this utter garbage.
The book is subdivided into chapters on Race, History, Religion and Culture. There are also three interludes: China, Reparations and Gratitude. Each section serves to show the reader just how extensive the undermining project has been. It has been a ‘long march through the institutions’ in order to erode our confidence in Christian values; replacing them with secular ones, and then imposing new totalitarian ones.
In ‘The Strange Death of Europe’, Douglas Murray pondered on the question of why Europeans were allowing their countries to die. In this latest book, he looks at the psycho-political movements that have sought to undermine our confidence in ourselves, our history, our values and our religious beliefs. What Sigmund Freud termed ‘Mortido’ or Death Instinct has a lot to do with what we are witnessing. People in the West have had it too easy for too long and forgotten how to fight. In the absence of having something to fight for, we lose heart and accept death.
The derangement that has followed Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, show us just how threatened the ideological Left is when its monopoly of thought is challenged. The Left has seduced its way into the mainstream and has been having its way for too long. There is a fightback taking place and Murray once again positions himself as a voice of reason and power. In many ways, he reminds me of the late Christopher Hitchens, a powerful voice that understood the political Left and then, late in life, argued against it.
I left a 5 star review for Murray’s excellent book, ‘The Madness of Crowds’. It had 600+ likes before it was buried by the algo. I hope this review fares better.
Douglas Murray does not cave in or fears the woke brigade. He is the most brilliant and cultivated writer in exposing the most radical western anti westerners flaws, biases worse than the ones they portray to combat, and lack of gratitude in general about the tolerant and egalitarian society they live in (see photo of conclusion portion).
It is refreshing to read Murray's wittiness in an environment where most other people cave in scared of this woke mob which wants the west to commit suicide, kill its heroes and erase every trace of its culture from Knossos, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem to England’s Magna Carta, Italian renaissance, Spain/Portugal navigations, French illuminism, German industry or great American achievements either in the north like the constitution or putting humans in the moon, or in the south such as the fantastic and wonderful blend of European, African and indigenous culture thriving there in so many countries.
Kudos and thank you to Douglas for standing up!

By P. Caetano on 28 April 2022
Douglas Murray does not cave in or fears the woke brigade. He is the most brilliant and cultivated writer in exposing the most radical western anti westerners flaws, biases worse than the ones they portray to combat, and lack of gratitude in general about the tolerant and egalitarian society they live in (see photo of conclusion portion).
It is refreshing to read Murray's wittiness in an environment where most other people cave in scared of this woke mob which wants the west to commit suicide, kill its heroes and erase every trace of its culture from Knossos, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem to England’s Magna Carta, Italian renaissance, Spain/Portugal navigations, French illuminism, German industry or great American achievements either in the north like the constitution or putting humans in the moon, or in the south such as the fantastic and wonderful blend of European, African and indigenous culture thriving there in so many countries.
Kudos and thank you to Douglas for standing up!

