The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray Summary
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Murray's explosive examination of modern identity politics reveals how gender, race, and social justice movements have sparked cultural warfare. Winner of Audiobook of the Year, this controversial bestseller asks: Has our obsession with group identity destroyed our ability to see each other as individuals?
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When Certainty Becomes a Trap
A strange fever has gripped our culture. Invisible tripwires lie scattered across everyday conversations, waiting for the unsuspecting to stumble. Some walk into these cultural minefields blindly, others march in deliberately-seemingly eager for the explosion. After each detonation, the world erupts briefly in dispute, then moves on, accepting another casualty of our improvisatory value system. What's happening isn't just political disagreement. It's something deeper: a collective derangement where the pursuit of justice has twisted into something unrecognizable, where yesterday's moral victories become today's new orthodoxies, and where questioning anything risks total social annihilation.
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