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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
By Ben Shapiro
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11 minute read
Published Mar 19, 2019
What you'll learn
Violent riots routinely erupting on university campuses in protest of Ben Shapiro’s lectures galvanized him into proffering an explanation for why the West is ripping itself to pieces.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Two great mysteries need explanations: How things ever got this good and why we’re throwing it all away now.
- 2 The United States is tearing itself apart and the popular explanations miss the reason why.
- 3 The best explanation for the anger and divisions is the rejection of the Judeo-Christian and Greek foundations on which Western civilization rests.
- 4 We have bastardized the idea of happiness and the pursuit thereof.
- 5 Democracy can’t be passively ingested by the next generation, but must be preserved and thoughtfully passed on.
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