The War on the West continues in full swing. Amplified by the Left's assaults on education, culture, and now politics. In this episode, we chat about Douglas’ new book The War on The West, identity politics, living in an age of deconstruction, accents, American culture, and much more! Douglas Murray is associate editor of The Spectator and is based in Britain. His latest publication, The Madness of Crowds was a bestseller and ‘book of the year’ for The Times and The Sunday Times. His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on The Sunday Times bestseller list and was a Number 1 bestseller in non-fiction. His latest book: The War on the West is already a New York Times bestseller and was published this past April.Top Takeaways:American culture has a profound effect on the rest of the world.It is much easier to destroy things than to create them.You must know and understand the basics before you can criticize them.We are living in an era in which we are pretending to know things we do not know, and pretending to not know things we do know.Show Notes: [0:00] Greg welcomes Douglas to the show [0:10] Douglas talks about being a musician and his passion for music [1:30] Douglas’ book being a NYT Best Seller[2:20] America’s culture, its effect on the rest of the world, and talking with people on the other side[9:40] Identity politics and accents[14:10] Changing the way you speak based on your surroundings[16:20] Feminism, LGBT, and problem solving [21:30] Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial[24:40] Western education and the age of deconstruction [30:20] New institutions for higher education[32:40] Douglas’ time at university [34:00] Peter Boghossian, the grievance studies affair w/James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, and having to know the basics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k&t=11s&ab_channel=MikeNayna) [36:20] Did Douglas ever consider becoming a professor?[38:20] Linguistic manipulation and rewriting the etymology of words [40:10] The reception for Douglas’ latest book The War on the West[43:30] Douglas’ experience recording the audiobook[48:00] Question: Where does Douglas find meaning?[51:20] Question: What was the most meaningful moment of your life?[55:00] Question: Where do you go to find peace?[56:30] Question: If you could write your own epitaph, what would you want it to say?[58:00] Question: If you had one wish, what would it be?[1:0:01] Wrapping up the show