John talks to uncompromising author and journalist, Douglas Murray, with a special focus on his new book, The Madness of Crowds, where Douglas examines the twenty-first century’s most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race.
Douglas Murray is a prolific British author
and journalist. He has been contributor to The Spectator since 2000 and has been associate editor of the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets, including: the Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Evening Standard, and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint Magazine since its founding.
He has degrees in economics and law from Sydney University, and an MA in politics and philosophy from Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
#WesternCivilisation #Freedom #Politics #Forgiveness
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00:00 Introduction
7:56 Living in a Postmodern Society
14:14 The myth of the ‘LGBT community’
21:44 How Cultural Marxism Stole Educational Institutions
28:00 Narcissism and the Obstruction of Truth
37:19 One Greatest Lesson from History
44:18 Why Forgiveness Matters
52:37 Why Radical Autonomy is the Enemy of Freedom
59:56 The Lost Art of Forgiving and Forgetting
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