The War on the West, by Kessa

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Kessa has a new book, which we will definitely talk about that. It's actually a doubly fantastic listen. I i read some of it and listened to the rest of it. And with madness of crowds, as with war in the west, i had to apologize repeatedly to the sound engineers and explain to them i wasn't laughing at my own jokesi i was laughing at the things i quote. So often they're ridiculous on the page, but they're even more rdiculous when you say them out loud. There are lines that really are laugh out loud funny,. Which i'm not sure everyone would discover on the page quite as readily as one when you're, you

Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, “The War on the West.” They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the de-platforming of Trump and Alex Jones, the new religion of anti-racism, the problem of inequality, the 1619 Project, history of slavery, moral panics, the strange case of Michel Foucault, and other topics.

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