As the left attempts to finish the Uma'ad Caliphate's job at the Battle of Tours by dismantling the Western civilization we hold so dear,

while the alt-right tries to make it a matter of melanin, we ask classicist, scholar, and immortal heir to the multiverse Spencer Clayvin, a simple question, what is the West?

Then, lone conservative Cassie Dillon and Fleckas Talks join to discuss President Trump's congressional snack down,

Florida's finally killing white guys who kill black guys, and the Girl Scouts outrage that the Boy Scouts are becoming the Girl Scouts, how transphobic are they?

Plus, the mailbag, I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

The Western civilization is all the rage these days, a hot topic of debate. Here is Tucker Carlson and President Trump describing Western civilization, Tucker on his show and President Trump in his Warsaw address.

President Trump's speech in Poland last week may have been the single best thing he has set out loud since entering politics, and for one reason it was a rousing defense of Western civilization.

We write symphonies, we pursue innovation, we celebrate our ancient heroes, embrace our timeless traditions and customs, and always seek to explore and discover brand new frontiers.

The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?

That's a very good question. The left hopes the answer to that question is no. They have at least since the time of Jesse Jackson marching on college campuses said, hey, hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has got to go. Here's why.

That triggered the alarm bells for me, am I wrong in making this parallel between Steve King, President Trump and white nationalism? Trump seemed to embody an enshrine that belief that the West should steal itself for clashes of civilizations with other cultures, other beliefs, which pretty much spelled out, you know, the Muslim world.

So this is not a speech he could have given really any play sells, and this is a white America, America first kind of speech.

Well, as he talks on the left about white nationalists, let's ask a white nationalist himself, Richard Spencer and the late Sam Francis also get in on the battle to define Western civilization.

quotation from Samuel Francis is from the mid 90s and he actually said this at a speech at an American Renaissance conference.

He said the civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people.

Nor is there any reason to believe that the civilization can be successfully transmitted to a different people, whether you're on the left or the right.

Many people seem to imagine that we could just find a, you know, a black African and dress him up in a Harris tweed vest or give him a pipe or some snuff and maybe a bowler cap and he'll become an Englishman or something like that.

Or, you know, in another way, like the Neocons, we describe Western civilization in this totally abstract term where it's, you know, some vague ideas about individualism and political institutions like democracy and so on.

Steve King is not doing that.

Now they all seem to get this wrong, all of those people and that is why last week we talked to a Charlottesville Unite the right attendee about the alt right and how they define Western civilization and today we're joined by an in studio guest, Spencer, Clavin, a class assist and obviously air to the multiverse.

Now I can't help but notice Spencer, Clavin is here. I can't help but notice the coincidence of the name. Are you related to Richard Spencer?

You know, not genetically and as I understand it, that's basically the only kind of relation to acknowledge so I would have to say no.

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