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Revisionist trap

THE WAR ON THE WEST: How to prevail in the age of unreason, by Douglas Murray (HarperCollins, $39.99)

What he calls “the war on the West”, Douglas Murray says, could perhaps be more accurately described as the self-destruction, or even the slow and systematic suicide, of the West.

, like the earlier books from the British author and political commentator, and , breaks many of the new cultural and political rules of what one should and should not say in “polite society” in the West in the 21st century. It pushes back on “truths” that cultural and political elites have to a large

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