The Right Side of History

America has a God-shaped hole in its heart,argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiroand we shouldn’t fill it with politics and hate. In 2016Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speechwhich was — ironically — about the necessity for free speech and rational debate. He came to argue 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 GodΓÇÖs image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring GodΓÇÖs world. We can thank these values for the birth of sciencethe dream of progresshuman rightsprosperitypeaceand artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built Americaended slaverydefeated the Nazis and the Communistslifted 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 IndependenceAbraham LincolnΓÇÖs Emancipation Proclamationand Martin Luther King Jr.ΓÇÖs Letter from Birmingham Jail. Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural lawsubstituting a new utopian vision of ΓÇ£social justiceΓÇ¥ ΓÇô and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural lawand they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural lawand 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 lawfavoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalismindividualistic hedonismand moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionalityor scientific materialismor progressive politicsor authoritarian governanceor nationalistic solidarity. We canΓÇÖt. The West is specialand in The Right Side of HistoryBen Shapiro bravely explains that itΓÇÖs because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be betteror the sacred duty to work together for the greater goodor both. A stark warningand a call to spiritual armsthis book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.