Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. We're shooting today in Fiesole, a town in the hills above Florence, Italy.

Associate editor of the Spectator, Douglas Murray writes for a number of publications, including the Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Murray is the author of a number of books, including the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Murray is the author of a number of books,

including The Strange Death of Europe,

which appeared in 2017,

and the madness of crowds, gender, race, and identity

which will appear this coming September.

Douglas Murray, welcome.

It's a great pleasure to be with you.

The Strange Death of Europe, I quote, Europe is committing suicide, or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide.

Whether the European people choose to go along with this is naturally another matter, close quote. We'll come to your argument in a moment,

but the book appeared in 2017 for now,

what do you make of what the people are willing

to put up with two years after you published the book?

It's very interesting in the two years since it came out.

It's been coming out in, I think it's now out in every European language, so I've been pretty

constantly, I'm in a different country every

week in Europe and elsewhere and so I get a pretty good sense of where things are.

I would say there's several things that the direction of travel hasn't changed, but some of those

impositions of power have done things that I was surprised they would be

willing to do to slow it down. I'm thinking particularly of the fact that the book centers on the migration crisis of 2015,

which I just see as a sped up version of something that have been happening for decades.

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