Today is the day my brand new book, The Right Side of History, is out.

Plus, Beto embraces third trimester abortion, and Vladimir Putin cracks down on the news. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Okay, so I really want to talk to you about my new book, which I think is, you know, I'm biased. I think it's important, I think it's good, and I think that you should read it. You should read it.

But again, I'm very biased on this subject.

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in Western civilization, and it's tearing us apart. And that is, what is Western civilization?

What is it? On the one side, you have a bunch of people who say Western civilization is terrible,

no good, very bad. On the other side, you have a bunch of people who say that Western civilization

is wonderful, but completely misdefine it.

So I think that here's the truth. All of the good things that are around you, democracy,

liberalism, free speech, prosperity, science, all of these things are the outgrowth of a civilization

in which you live and whose values you have embedded in your system, whether you like it or not.

But it's fascinating to see how people really don't know much about the roots of the civilization.

That has led them to these critiques of the civilization or to a defense of something that is not Western civilization.

I'll tell you what I mean.

So the manifesto of the New Zealand shooter is, of course, a deeply

evil document. And that is not a shock because this is a deeply evil white supremacist.

But the guy references the West many times throughout this document. What exactly did he mean

by the West? Well, he meant racial superiority of white people. In the document, which you

should not read, I've not encouraged people to read it.

The only reason that I even mentioned the document now is because I think it is important to rebut

what is a widespread perception about what exactly this evil white supremacist thought and with whom

he sympathized. He talks about the West a lot in this document. And people on the left say,

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