Douglas Murray

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end. This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities, it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them. Murray takes a step back at each stage and looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. The book addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. This sharp and incisive book ends up with two visions for a new Europe--one hopeful, one pessimistic--which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: "civilizations like humans are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die."

Immigration, Identity, Islam

The Strange Death of Europe

It has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been lured into protests and polarization by lies and hypocrisy. Ranging from an incisive takedown of foolish arguments and activism to a clarion call for the defense of enlightenment values, Murray carefully and methodically shows how far political discourse has strayed in Europe and America from its stated goals: justice and equality. Print run 75,000.

The War on the West

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' – Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.

Gender, Race and Identity; THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The Madness of Crowds

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with a new afterword "An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness." – Joe Rogan "Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues" – Jordan B. Peterson Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.

Gender, Race and Identity

In this 2013 book (now reissued for the first time) bestselling author and broadcaster Douglas Murray, with trademark wit, delivers an alarming analysis of the post-9/11 world. It is a devastating satire on the climate of fear in the West today. Murray's analysis is wildly entertaining yet ultimately profound:"If absolutely everybody in the world agrees on something - from the President of the United States to most film-stars, pop-stars, Popes, Bishops, atheists, writers, film-makers, brain-boxes and everyone else - then surely they must be right. Well, no. I think they are wrong. Wildly, terribly, embarrassingly and dangerously wrong, " writes Murray.ISLAMOPHILIA shows how so many of the celebrities above, have, at some point chosen to abandon any hope or wish to criticize Islam and instead decided to profess some degree of love for it. Love, that Murray points out in the book, is often irrational and certainly misguided: Murray is not afraid to name and shame, and the book's tour includes Sebastian Faulks and Martin Amis, Boris Johnson, South Park, Tony Blair, Ridley Scott, David Cameron, Liam Neeson, Justin Bieber, Random House Publishers, the BBC, Richard Dawkins, the Prince of Wales and even George Bush. Yes, George Bush."They may have done this for a range of good and bad reasons. Some of them have to done it to save other people. Some of them have done it to save themselves. Some of them have done it because they are too stupid to do anything else and others because clever people can be really dumb at times."Murray goes on to detail the extraordinary strategic cultural efforts made in recent years to "rewrite the last few millennia of history, minimising and denigrating the impact of actual scientists and promoting the claims of Islamic proselytisers". And he has fighting words for the version of history depicted by Ridley Scott and others in Hollywood.Artists and writers have been caught off-guard, he alleges, "Having poked at empty hornets nests for so many years they have forgotten the courage required to do the necessary poking at full ones."He concludes, "Let's be clear. For the record I don't think everybody needs to spend their time being offensive about Islam. Not only is there no need to be offensive all the time, but most Muslims just want to get on with their lives as peacefully and successfully as everybody else. But there is an un-evenness in our societies that needs to be righted...to think that the answer to any criticism of Islam or Muslims is a delegitimizing of critics and an indulgence in self-pity is not to make an advance. It is to pave the way for self-harm. For all of us.Where people are telling lies we should not be fearful to correct them. And where people are fearful - and genuine reasons to be so do keep coming along - people should remind themselves of something. Which is that just as bravery in one person instils bravery in others, so cowardice in one person has a tendency to be catching."

A Very Metropolitan Malady

Islamophilia

"A genius yet a failure through his tormented youth, Bosie's deep and enduring friendship with Oscar Wilde continued throughout the trials and subsequent imprisonment of Wilde and on until his death in 1900. Soon after, Bosie surprisingly eloped and started a family, briefly finding tranquility both in this and in his poetry. He became great friends with George Bernard Shaw and Marie Stopes and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group. His religious devotion increased as spiralling debts cut short his happiness. Soon battles with the remainder of the Wilde circle, his father-in-law and indeed his libelling of Winston Churchill led to his own imprisonment, followed by a semi-reclusive state until his death in 1945." "Douglas Murray has succeeded where Bosie himself failed in securing the release of a Home Office file which was to be sealed until 2043. It holds the key to Bosie's state of mind while in prison and the only original workings of some of his best poetry."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

Bosie

In this 2013 book (now reissued for the first time) bestselling author and broadcaster Douglas Murray, with trademark wit, delivers an alarming analysis of the post-9/11 world. It is a devastating satire on the climate of fear in the West today. Murray's analysis is wildly entertaining yet ultimately profound:"If absolutely everybody in the world agrees on something - from the President of the United States to most film-stars, pop-stars, Popes, Bishops, atheists, writers, film-makers, brain-boxes and everyone else - then surely they must be right. Well, no. I think they are wrong. Wildly, terribly, embarrassingly and dangerously wrong, " writes Murray.ISLAMOPHILIA shows how so many of the celebrities above, have, at some point chosen to abandon any hope or wish to criticize Islam and instead decided to profess some degree of love for it. Love, that Murray points out in the book, is often irrational and certainly misguided: Murray is not afraid to name and shame, and the book's tour includes Sebastian Faulks and Martin Amis, Boris Johnson, South Park, Tony Blair, Ridley Scott, David Cameron, Liam Neeson, Justin Bieber, Random House Publishers, the BBC, Richard Dawkins, the Prince of Wales and even George Bush. Yes, George Bush."They may have done this for a range of good and bad reasons. Some of them have to done it to save other people. Some of them have done it to save themselves. Some of them have done it because they are too stupid to do anything else and others because clever people can be really dumb at times."Murray goes on to detail the extraordinary strategic cultural efforts made in recent years to "rewrite the last few millennia of history, minimising and denigrating the impact of actual scientists and promoting the claims of Islamic proselytisers". And he has fighting words for the version of history depicted by Ridley Scott and others in Hollywood.Artists and writers have been caught off-guard, he alleges, "Having poked at empty hornets nests for so many years they have forgotten the courage required to do the necessary poking at full ones."He concludes, "Let's be clear. For the record I don't think everybody needs to spend their time being offensive about Islam. Not only is there no need to be offensive all the time, but most Muslims just want to get on with their lives as peacefully and successfully as everybody else. But there is an un-evenness in our societies that needs to be righted...to think that the answer to any criticism of Islam or Muslims is a delegitimizing of critics and an indulgence in self-pity is not to make an advance. It is to pave the way for self-harm. For all of us.Where people are telling lies we should not be fearful to correct them. And where people are fearful - and genuine reasons to be so do keep coming along - people should remind themselves of something. Which is that just as bravery in one person instills bravery in others, so cowardice in one person has a tendency to be catching."

Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady

War on the West

Imigrac?o, Identidade, Religi?o A Estranha Morte da Europa e o relato de um continente e de uma cultura a beira do suicidio. A queda nas taxas de natalidade, a imigrac?o em massa e a cultura da autodesconfianca e do odio tornaram os europeus incapazes de se defender e de resistir a sua transformac?o abrangente como sociedade. Este livro n?o e apenas uma analise da realidade demografica ou politica, e tambem o testemunho de um continente em autodestruic?o. Em cada capitulo, Murray da um passo atras e analisa os temas mais profundos que est?o por detras da possivel morte da Europa, de uma atmosfera de ataques terroristas em massa a estavel eros?o das nossas liberdades. Aborda o desapontante falhanco do multiculturalismo, a viragem de Angela Merkel em relac?o as migrac?es e a fixac?o do Ocidente na culpa. Viajando ate Berlim, Paris, Escandinavia, Lampedusa e Grecia, o autor desvenda o mal-estar no corac?o da cultura europeia e ouve as historias daqueles que chegaram vindos de longe. E termina com duas vis?es da Europa - uma de esperanca e uma pessimista - que retratam um continente em crise e oferecem uma escolha do que podemos fazer no futuro.

A Estranha Morte da Europa

Zvláštna smrť Európy

Neo Conservatism: Why We Need It is a defense of the most controversial political philosophy of our era. Douglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror. While others are blaming it for foreign policy failures and, more extremely, attacking it as a Jewish cabal, Murray argues that the West needs Neo-conservatism more than ever. In addition to explaining what Neo conservatism is and where it came from, he argues that this American-born response to the failed policies of the 1960s is the best approach to foreign affairs not only for the United States but also for Britain and the West as well.

Why We Need It

Neoconservatism

NeoConservatism

Der The Sunday Times-Bestseller jetzt in komplett überarbeiteter Neuauflage. Douglas Murray kämpft den wichtigen Kampf um die Meinungsfreiheit. Ein wahrhaftiger Blick auf eines der spaltendsten Themen unserer Gegenwart. Jordan B. Peterson Das neue Buch von Murray ist überwältigend und sollte gelesen werden, MUSS gelesen werden - von jedem! Richard Dawkins Douglas Murray, Autor des The Sunday Times #1-Bestsellers »Der Selbstmord Europas«, widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch »Wahnsinn der Massen« den vielleicht polarisierendsten Themen unserer Zeit. Gleichberechtigung zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft und sexueller Orientierung sind wichtige Errungenschaften unserer Gesellschaft. Doch in unserem Streben nach einer besseren Welt versetzen wir uns regelmäßig in eine Massenhysterie und schießen über das Ziel hinaus. Diese neuen Kulturkriege erleben die Menschen immer häufiger an ihren Arbeitsplätzen sowie den Universitäten und Schulen, oft im Namen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit oder Identitätspolitik. In unserer postmodernen Zeit wird der Kampf im Namen religiöser und politischer Ideologien immer mehr durch das Streben nach individueller Aufmerksamkeit und Anerkennung ersetzt, so dass mitunter auch kleine Interessengruppen immer öfter die politische und gesellschaftliche Agenda dominieren. Murray zeigt, wie wir im Ringen um die Anerkennung jedes Einzelnen unsere Vernunft, unsere gemeinsamen Werte und letztlich unsere Menschlichkeit verlieren. Ein wichtiges Plädoyer für die Redefreiheit, für vernunftgeleitete Diskussionen und gegen den zuweilen aufkeimenden Wahnsinn in einem Zeitalter der Massenhysterie..

Wie Meinungsmache und Hysterie unsere Gesellschaft vergiften

Wahnsinn der Massen

Three lives, three pebbles dropped into the sea, the ripples converging into transient patterns of interconnection as they each try to come to terms with their fragility and search for meaning. This search ultimately leads them all back to the boathouse, to rediscover the profound impact it had upon their lives. The Boathouse is a story about the healing power of writing and our human need to leave something behind to show that our life had meaning, or in Japanese our ikigai, our reason for living. The novel is in three parts as the three main protagonists take it in turns to describe their life in an old boathouse on the west coast of Hokkaido. A wandering beggar, a young fisherwoman, and an old poet, united in their experience of the healing power of telling the story of their time in the boathouse.

A Japanese Odyssey

The Boathouse

Kalabaliklarin Cilginligi

Associate Professor of English Douglas Murray

Neo conservatism: Why We Need It is a defense of the most controversial political philosophy of our era. Douglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror. While others are blaming it for foreign policy failures and, more extremely, attacking it as a ''Jewish cabal,'' Murray argues that the West needs Neo conservatism more than ever. In addition to explaining what Neo conservatism is and where it came from, he argues that this American-born response to the failed policies of the 1960s is the best approach to foreign affairs not only for the United States but also for Britain and the West as well.

Why We Need It (Large Print 16pt)

An Instant New York Times Bestseller China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique? It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia? 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. If the West is to survive, it must be defended. The War on the West is not only an incisive takedown of foolish anti-Western arguments but also a rigorous new apologetic for civilization itself.

Der The Sunday Times-Bestseller jetzt in komplett überarbeiteter Neuauflage. Douglas Murray kämpft den wichtigen Kampf um die Meinungsfreiheit. Ein wahrhaftiger Blick auf eines der spaltendsten Themen unserer Gegenwart. Jordan B. Peterson Das neue Buch von Murray ist überwältigend und sollte gelesen werden, MUSS gelesen werden - von jedem! Richard Dawkins Douglas Murray, Autor des The Sunday Times #1-Bestsellers »Der Selbstmord Europas«, widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch »Wahnsinn der Massen« den vielleicht polarisierendsten Themen unserer Zeit. Gleichberechtigung zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft und sexueller Orientierung sind wichtige Errungenschaften unserer Gesellschaft. Doch unsere Bemühungen um eine gerechtere Gesellschaft schießen oft über das Ziel hinaus und nehmen hysterische Züge an. Diese neuen Kulturkriege erleben die Menschen immer häufiger an ihren Arbeitsplätzen sowie den Universitäten und Schulen, oft im Namen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit oder Identitätspolitik. In unserer postmodernen Zeit wird der Kampf im Namen religiöser und politischer Ideologien immer mehr durch das Streben nach individueller Aufmerksamkeit und Anerkennung ersetzt, so dass mitunter auch kleine Interessengruppen immer öfter die politische und gesellschaftliche Agenda dominieren. Murray zeigt, wie wir im Ringen um die Anerkennung jedes Einzelnen unsere Vernunft, unsere gemeinsamen Werte und letztlich unsere Menschlichkeit verlieren. Ein wichtiges Plädoyer für die Redefreiheit, für vernunftgeleitete Diskussionen und gegen den zuweilen aufkeimenden Wahnsinn in einem Zeitalter der Massenhysterie.

The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers 'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn...' In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is a history of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it? It's become, he explains, perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What'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 of it 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 how many well-meaning people have been lured into protests and polarisation by such lies and hypocrisy. A blistering and important polemic, Murray's latest book carefully and methodically shows how far political discourse has strayed in Europe and America from its stated goals: justice and equality. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and activism, towards a clarion call for the defence of enlightenment values, The War on the West is one of the most important books for a generation, cementing Murray as one of the world's foremost political writers.

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