The War on the West

Resumen del libro

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER â The most important book of the yearâ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the worldâ s foremost political writers â The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turnâ â In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it? Itâ s become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. Whatâ s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech.

Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the worldâ s most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murrayâ s status as one of the worldâ s foremost political writers.

Biografía del autor

Douglas Murray es un periodista y autor británico que trabaja para medios como The Spectator, The Sunday Times o The Wall Street Journal. Es además un destacado conferenciante y ha sido invitado a ponencias en Westminster, el Parlamento Europeo y la Casa Blanca. Es autor de La extraña muerte de Europa y La masa enfurecida (Península), libro del año para The Times y The Sunday Times. Ambos fueron éxitos de ventas en el Reino Unido y se han traducido a más de veinte lenguas.<br>