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Newt's World

Episode 404: Douglas Murray on “The War on the West”

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

News, Politics

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

There is a war going on. And it’s against Western culture. Why are left-wing liberals tearing down statues and going after the Founders of our country as ‘bad men’? Why are we witnessing a ‘cancel culture’ society today? Newt’s guest is Douglas Murray. His new book is: “The War on the West”, a must-read for anyone who wants context to this challenging world we’re living in.

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0:35.7

On this episode of Newt's World, in recent years it has become clear that there's a war going on,

0:42.7

a war on the West. This is not like earlier awards where armies clash and victors are declared.

0:49.6

It is a cultural war and it has been waged, remorselessly, against all the roots of the

0:55.6

Western tradition and against everything good that the Western tradition is produced.

1:01.2

That is a quote from the opening lines of very, very important new book, The War on the West.

1:08.8

Here to discuss this new book, I am really pleased to welcome my guest, Douglas Murray.

1:15.4

He is the associate editor of the spectator, The War on the West is his third book.

1:20.7

His last book, The Madness of Kraus which we did a podcast about, was a bestseller and book of the year

1:28.4

for the Times and the Sunday Times. His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe, Immigration,

1:35.4

Identity Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on the Sunday

1:44.2

Times bestseller list and was a number one bestseller at nonfiction.

2:00.3

Douglas, thank you for joining me again on Newt's World. You know, the last time when you're on

2:04.8

in July of 2020, when we talked about your last book, The Madness of Kraus, I thoroughly enjoyed

2:10.8

you and I thoroughly enjoyed your book. So I'm really delighted to have you back.

2:15.8

Well, it's a great pleasure, Newt. Thank you and I much enjoyed our last conversation too.

2:19.3

And I'm really looking forward to getting into this today.

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