SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

‘The most important book of the year’  Daily Mail

The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers

‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’

In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?

It’s become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.

In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world’s most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray’s status as one of the world’s foremost political writers.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION

'A superb biography ... full of compassion, perception' Roger Lewis, The Times

'I love this book. Douglas Murray is a genius' Rupert Everett

Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde.

Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Douglas's aggressive father, to court for libel. When the details of their relationship were aired in court, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and later imprisoned.

Wilde's story is well known, but this is the first book to tell it fully from Douglas's perspective. Written, and originally published in 2000, with access to never-before-seen papers , Bosie explores the contradictions, tensions and turmoils of Douglas's life with Wilde and beyond as a poet, husband and father.

This compelling biography uncovers the life of one of the most notorious figures in literary history, and its course from gilded beautiful youth to semi-reclusive outcast, at the time of Douglas's death in 1945.

Si la historia de la humanidad es un relato construido sobre la esclavitud, la conquista, el genocidio y la explotación, ¿por qué son solo las naciones occidentales quienes asumen su cuota de responsabilidad?

Hoy en día, parece que celebrar las contribuciones de otras culturas es algo perfectamente aceptable, mientras que hablar de sus defectos y crímenes es un acto de odio. Por el contrario, uno puede flagelarse por las atrocidades presentes y pasadas de su propio pueblo, pero alabar sus contribuciones y épocas de gloria es reaccionario y colonialista.

En La guerra contra Occidente, Murray describe cómo las personas bienintencionadas se dejan engañar por una retórica antioccidental hipócrita e incoherente. Si los actos de xenofobia y discriminación son condenados en Europa y Estados Unidos, ¿por qué no denunciar el racismo genocida que tiene lugar hoy en Oriente Medio y Asia? No son solo los académicos deshonestos quienes se benefician de este fraude intelectual, sino también las tiranías, felices de que el mundo desvíe la mirada de sus propios actos. 

Tras el éxito de La masa enfurecida, un libro que ahondaba en las perversas políticas de identidad, Douglas Murray centra ahora su atención en la guerra cultural y aboga por una idea que, por demasiado obvia, algunos parecen ignorar: para que los ideales y valores de Occidente sobrevivan, primero hay que defenderlos.