A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Human beings have never had it
better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge
of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author
Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley.
Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech.
What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that
Western civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and
ideas; that we have let grievances replace our sense of community
and political expediency limit our individual rights; that we are
teaching our kids that their emotions matter more than rational
debate; and that the only meaning in life is arbitrary and
subjective. As a society, we are forgetting that almost everything
great that has ever happened in history happened because of people
who believed in both Judeo-Christian values and in the Greek-born
power of reason. In The Right Side of History, Shapiro sprints
through more than 3,500 years, dozens of philosophers, and the
thicket of modern politics to show how our freedoms are built upon
the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and
that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring
God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science,
the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and
artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery,
defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from
poverty, and gave billions more spiritual purpose. Yet we are in
the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural
law, watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism,
individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can
satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, scientific materialism,
progressive politics, authoritarian governance, or nationalistic
solidarity. We can't. The West is special, and in The Right Side of
History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains how we have lost sight of the
moral purpose that drives each of us to be better, the sacred duty
to work together for the greater good,.
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