The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great Audiobook (Free)

America includes a God-shaped gap in its center, argues New York Times bestselling writer Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn’t fill up it with politics and hate.

In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, that was — ironically — about the need for free speech and rational debate.

He came to argue that Western Civilization is amid a crisis of purpose and suggestions. Our freedoms are designed about The Right Side of Background: How Cause and Moral Purpose Made the Western Great upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God’s image and that humans were made up of reason capable of exploring God’s world.

We are able to thank these values for the delivery of science, the imagine progress, human rights, prosperity, serenity, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens constructed America, finished slavery, defeated the Nazis as well as the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions religious purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Self-reliance, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther Ruler Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR turned down Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “sociable justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of an incredible number of humans. The Nazis declined Judeo-Christian ideals and Greek organic law, and they shoved kids into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian beliefs and Greek organic law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.

We are along the way of abandoning Judeo-Christian ideals and Greek normal rules, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the guideline of passion. And we are viewing our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we are able to reject Judeo-Christian ideals and Greek natural laws and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or intensifying politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.

We can’t.

The Western is special, and in The Right Side of Background, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because way too many folks have misplaced sight from the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark caution, and a contact to spiritual hands, this book could be the first step in getting our civilization back again on track.