The author of The Strange Death of Europe has never been afraid of controversy, and Murray’s latest is no exception. The War on the West is a panoramic survey of a new prejudice that has commandeered western institutions in the name of social justice. It is, Murray argues, out to “demonise the people who still make up the racial majority in the West”. The war on our civilisation turns out, for Murray, to mean a war against whiteness. In 2006, Murray published a defence of neoconservatism– Neoconservatism: Why We Need It–and went on a speaking tour promoting the book in the United States. [26] The publication was subsequently reviewed in the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat by the Iranian author Amir Taheri: "Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas." [27] In 2007, he assisted in the writing of Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership by Gen. Dr. Klaus Naumann, Gen. John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal The Lord Inge, Adm. Jacques Lanxade, and Gen. Henk van den Breemen. [28] His book Bloody Sunday was (jointly) awarded the 2011–2012 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. [29] In June 2013, Murray's e-book Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady was published. [30] In recent years, I have come to think of racial issues in the West as being like a pendulum that has swung past the point of correction and into overcorrection.” Marx, however, suffers what is in some ways a greater humiliation. He is ridiculed, or treated as a mere curiosity. If one does not wish to pay to enter the cemetery, one can see him through the railings on the southern edge of Waterlow Park, at a distance which reduces the bust to an acceptable size. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (10 July 2001). "13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary . Retrieved 2 September 2019.

We are either going to become Christian again, or something along the lines of that, or we will be assimilated by the large machine-AI that is being pushed for by transhumanists, all the while fighting each other over petty nonsense. For example, he discusses the case of the US CDC (Centre for Disease Control), which when deciding how to allocate Covid vaccines at the end of 2020, initially elected to vaccinate health workers first rather than elderly people, partly in the name of eliminating health inequalities, though it was pointed out that older people were more likely to be white. Underpinning Murray’s book is a sense that the racial divisions stirred up by the ‘cultural revolutionaries’ could result in serious and bloody conflict in decades to come.The bitter irony, as far as Murray is concerned, is that these new theories of oppression arose at the precise moment in human history when actual racism, sexism and homophobia had evaporated. “Suddenly – after most of us had hoped it had become a non-issue – everything seemed to have become about race,” he writes. This seems to bug him more than anything else: “Among the many depressing aspects of recent years, the most troubling is the ease with which race has returned as an issue.”

This is not to suggest that Murray’s larger argument is confected or alarmist. His basic contention is that anti-Westernism under the guise of social justice, has become popular enough to be threatening. If enough are convinced that Western history is nothing more than a catalogue of moral outrages and that Western societies remain irredeemably oppressive, tyrannical, bigoted, and all the rest of it, then what sense is there in preserving such a system? Democracy, civil liberties, freedom of conscience, and expression—these are simply myths manufactured by an unjust system to induce compliance. Why not burn it all to the ground and start again? And in the event of a confrontation with a hostile foreign power, why risk anything at all to defend what is indefensible? The war in Ukraine has underscored and italicised these questions posed by Murray. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University asked respondents whether they would “stay and fight” if America was invaded like Ukraine. Fully 52 percent of Democrats, and some 36 percent of Republicans, said they would leave the country instead. Beacom, Brian (7 December 2019). "Douglas Murray: 'Relations between men and women cannot be turned into criminal acts in waiting' ". HeraldScotland . Retrieved 4 October 2022. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be understood, and yet it is increasingly the only lens used. Everything in the past is seen as racist, and so everything in the past is tainted.” In the end, for all the West’s failings, as Murray says in his chapter on China, the most important question to ask its critics is “compared to what?” Today, the China-Russia alliance presents a chilling glimpse of the real alternative: a pair of genocidal, expansionist regimes, each justifying its crimes in the name of civilisational purity.

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Kearns, Madeleine (6 September 2018). "Douglas Murray Interview: 'The Madness of Crowds' Author on Gender, Race & Identity". National Review . Retrieved 4 October 2019. The basic problem at the root of it all is this: we want to promote a society that values tolerance and freedom of expression. As such, we avoid intolerance, even if this behavior hurts us. That’s the point of it all. PM Orbán receives speakers from V4 conference "The Future of Europe" in Parliament". About Hungary. 25 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020 . Retrieved 6 January 2021.

Stanley, Tim (27 September 2019). "The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, review: unleashing a liberal dose of outrage". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 2 October 2019. That is a gross over-simplification. In pretty much every Western country, there have been big arguments about immigration. In Australia, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, pretty much anywhere one cares to name, politicians have come to realise they will only possess legitimacy if they avert unrestricted immigration. The accusation of ‘Racist’ of course is a wonderful weapon for any of the disaffected. If someone wanted to traduce another then all they’d have to say is something like, “Oh, he’s a racist” It would require little proof, little justification and would have an immediate and far-reaching effect, their reputation and all that they hold dear. It is, I guess, a cheap weapon and one that is easily and regularly deployed and of course especially in the West. By contrast, if they wanted to say that I was a rubbish doctor, then they’d have to produce much more proof and an analysis say that I couldn’t distinguish heart failure from a chest infection would require more detailed knowledge than the average man in the street has or could recognise and even then; it still wouldn’t have the same destructive potential. Not only this, but the ‘abused’ gain immediate fame, publicity and ascend far more than the person so called descends. Moreover, as the author makes clear they also make a substantial living from such practice. You’ll have noticed on the telly that just about everyone these days has either been bullied, has depression, visits a food bank, has been the victim of racism, has been abused…the list goes on. a b Elgot, Jessica (19 May 2016). "Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 May 2016. Murray is on the international advisory board of NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based NGO described [ by whom?] as pro-Israel and right-wing, which was founded in 2001 by professor Gerald M. Steinberg. [114] [115] [116] As of 2022 [update], he was also one of the directors of the Free Speech Union, an organization established by British social commentator Toby Young in 2020 which speaks out against cancel culture. [117] [118]Daniel Reynolds. "Right-Wing U.K. Writer Epically Schooled for Misgendering Sam Smith". www.advocate.com . Retrieved 27 February 2023. It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the “America is a racist country” bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and “pro-justice” movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests. Murray is in grave need of opponents, and inclined to magnify their importance. Many of those he finds are in the United States. He digs up Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein, both of whom used to be more influential than they are now, and various other figures who may or may not become influential. Given that the political message contained in Murray’s writing is a defence of the status quo power relations in the West, it’s not that surprising that he is being so heavily promoted by Rupert Murdoch’s media network, which benefits heavily from this system. Lucy, Sherriff (13 May 2013). "Muslim Students' Anger at Student Rights' Extremism on Campus Claims". The Huffington Post . Retrieved 16 January 2017.

Why should “gratitude” be an emotion that is denied to the devil? Dostoevsky leaves this unanswered. But it is worth reflecting on. Oded Yaron (3 February 2017). "Biased Wikipedia editing in Israel raises concerns of political meddling - France 24". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017 . Retrieved 2 June 2022. But things have died down a bit. No more statues have been thrown into Bristol harbour. Churchill still stands in Parliament Square, his plinth at present unsullied by accusations that he was a racist. Bloomfield, Jon (2020). "Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 89–97. doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12770. S2CID 211395195. In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that. a b Kotch, Alex (27 December 2018). "Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content?". Sludge. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 20 December 2020.The gender theorist Judith Butler … Murray decries her as a fraud. Photograph: Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images Douglas Murray and the War on Western Culture – Opinion: Free Expression". The Wall Street Journal. 25 April 2022 . Retrieved 12 October 2022. Taheri, Amir (20 January 2006). "Neoconservatism: Why We Need It". Asharq al-Awsat . Retrieved 3 February 2020.