The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

Even in such a relatively genteel world as the world of books, this marked radicalization could be witnessed in the last decade. In the 2010s, during the Obama presidency, mainstream publishers started to pump out books that seemed intent on radicalizing people from the cradle upward. At the time, some of it seemed so preposterous as to be funny. Innosanto Nagara’s work A is for Activist (2012) was a children’s alphabet picture book intended to produce the next generation of activists. As well as being anticapitalist, it was also naturally on board with all the latest identity politics. L is for “LGBT,” and of course T is for “Trans” before it is for “Trains.” But the main point of the book is to tell children that they should grow up to protest and fight for “equality,” “diversity,” and more. Which is why X is for Malcolm X, I is for “indigenous” and “immigrant,” Y is for “Your truth,” and the A–Z finishes with Z is for Zapatista.