Book Review: ‘The War on the West’: Ringing Response to Denying a Positive Western Tradition

The advent of prosperity in the West came from trade. "Danzig in the 17th century, a port of the Hanseatic League" by Wojciech Gerson. Public Domain

“In recent years it has become clear that there is a war going on: a war on the West, a cultural war, being waged remorselessly against all the roots of the Western tradition and against everything good that the Western tradition has produced.” —Douglas Murray

In his previous book, “The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity” (2019), Murray compared himself to a machine that explodes land mines so that soldiers may follow more safely behind.