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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: right side of history
    sub title: how reason and moral purpose made the West great
  name:
    name part: Shapiro, Ben
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. 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 spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of "social justice" -- and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs. We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity. We can't.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The pursuit of happiness -- From the mountaintop -- From the dust -- Coming together -- Endowed by their creators -- Killing purpose, killing capacity -- The remaking of the world -- After the fire -- The return to paganism -- Conclusion: How to build.
  note: Ben Shapiro.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Moral conditions
  subject:
    topic: Social values
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Conservatism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Secularism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Western
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2017-
  subject:
    topic: Nonfiction
  classification: HN90.M6 S53 2019
  classification: 306.0973
  identifier: 9780062857903
  identifier: 0062857908
  record info:
    record content source: NjBwBT
    record creation date: 190313
    record change date: 20190517122602.0
    record identifier: in00004069739
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng