Can You Communicate It?

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In science, you need it's a three legged stool. You need data, theory and communication. If you can't communicate your ideas, o your theories, and it's not going to go anywhere. How can it be that a left winged dictator can kill tens of millions of people, yet still be praised for great leaps forward in agricultural matters? Why is winston churchill regarded as the greatest briton but damned because of a welsh miner's death 3 decades before? I says we have a very weird attitude towards our past. We have heroes who were heroes until to day, who were suddenly talked of and treated by some unclear new estimation. And i give examples,

Shermer and Murray discuss: what it takes to become a successful writer • Is this “war” on Western civilization just a necessary course correction from the sins of the past? • Is at least some of the criticisms of Western civilization a form of revenge for past wrongs? • CRT: If racism is not the explanation for the present Black/White differences in income, wealth, home ownership, and representation in professional careers, what is? • Racism and Antiracism • 1619 Project • BLM movement • White privilege • Colonialism and decolonizing cultural things • Monuments • If Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln should be cancelled, what about Marx? • Anti-Semitism • Objectivity and the search for truth: is this a Western tradition only? • Reparations: don’t we have a moral obligation to right a wrong?

Douglas Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. His previous book, The Madness of Crowds, was a bestseller and a 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 twenty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a number one bestseller in nonfiction. His new book is The War on the West in which Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric.