The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

by Ben Shapiro

If you believe that life is more than materialistic pleasures and pain avoidance, you are a product of Jerusalem and Athens.

And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism.

Contrary to the propaganda of a postmodern atheist movement, nearly every great scientist up until the age of Darwinism was religious.

The secularist myth holds that religion held back science for millennia. The reverse is true. Without Judeo-Christian foundations, science simply would not exist as it does in the West.

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And a society that refuses to acknowledge the biological differences between men and women is engaging in knowing falsehood.

Reason, in fact, is insulting. Reason suggests that one person can know better than another, that one person’s perspective can be more correct than someone else’s. Reason is intolerant. Reason demands standards. Better to destroy reason than to abide by its dictates.

If you are told repeatedly that your self-esteem is threatened by the system and the structure, and that even statistics and science must not offend you—if you are taught that your bliss matters more than objective truth—you become weak and fragile, unable to cope in the real world.

The alt-right remains a fringe movement, but their arguments have penetrated into more visible circles thanks to a reactionary tendency by some on the Right to embrace anyone who supposedly opposes political correctness.

You did not create your freedoms or your definition of virtue, nor did they arise in a vacuum.