Douglas Murray and His Continuing Fight against the "Madness of Crowds”

Uncommon Knowledge

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

A little over 18 months ago, we interviewed author and columnist Douglas Murray about his then new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. That show was one of our most-watched interviews of 2019, so we thought it was time to sit down with Douglas again and get an update on where things stand with regard to, as Douglas describes in his book, “the interpretation of the world through the lens of ‘social justice,’ ‘identity group politics’ and ‘intersectionalism’ . . . the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.”

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0:00.0	We are asked to agree to things which we cannot believe.
0:05.0	Douglas Murray, author of the Madness of Crowds on Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. Associate editor of the London Spectator,
0:26.0	Douglas Murray is the author of a number of books including The Strange Death of Europe, which appeared in 2017.
0:32.0	His most recent book published last year, The Madness of Crowds,
0:37.2	gender, race, and identity. Douglas, welcome. You're where right now. I'm actually hold up in an apartment in
0:48.0	Central Europe in Budapest and last time we met, of course, we met in Fiezole, I think, in the hills above Florence.
0:59.0	So I'm as approximate or nearer there than I think you are.
1:03.2	Oh, very much so.
1:04.0	I'm just sorry we can't.
1:05.5	I'm sorry we can't reconvene in Florence.
1:09.0	Life isn't over yet.
1:10.0	We'll get, we'll do it again.
1:11.3	But how long were you in this country?
1:13.0	Writing columns for the spectator from the United States
1:15.7	for a month or so?
1:16.7	Was it?
1:17.7	Yes, I was in the States for five weeks up
1:20.2	until the election and just until shortly afterwards,
1:23.0	touring around your country.
1:25.0	Right.
1:26.0	Well, we'll come back to your tour of this country in a moment.
1:28.6	First, the madness of crowds.
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