Listeners familiar with the prolific author’s incendiary YouTube appearances will be pleasantly surprised by his performance of this audiobook, a well-crafted examination of why Western civilization is in danger of falling apart. Flawless phrasing and accurate interpretations are expected from author/narrators (who know exactly what they are trying to say), and Shapiro delivers in this regard. His performance projects vocal security, a comfortable authenticity that makes his more controversial ideas easy to hear. His unyielding emphasis on good and evil is unfashionable: His examples and remedies harken to times when complying with higher authority, both human and divine, created the purpose needed to fight large-scale wrongs like slavery, the Nazis, and the abandonment of huge swaths of people by their governments. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Narrated by Ben Shapiro
Ben ShapiroUnabridged — 6 hours, 6 minutes
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Narrated by Ben Shapiro
Ben ShapiroUnabridged — 6 hours, 6 minutes
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Overview
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues*New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill 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, which 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 God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted 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 Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” - and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and 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 law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can't.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it's because too many of us have lost sight of 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 warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
Editorial Reviews
As an ideological refresher on what the West got right, Shapiro’s book gets the job done.” — The Washington Post
Shapiro cavorts through 3,000 years of intellectual history in the span of about 250 pages, offering a perspicuous, “user-friendly” dive into some of our civilization’s biggest ideas. — The Washington Examiner
“Ben Shapiro knows the power of his voice. He stands up and fights for what he believes with time-tested ideas. The Right Side of History is thoughtful and well-reasoned - exactly what Shapiro’s critics don’t want you to hear.” — Nikki Haley, former premanent representative of the U.S. Mission of the United Nations
Ben Shapiro knows the power of his voice. He stands up and fights for what he believes with time-tested ideas. The Right Side of History is thoughtful and well-reasoned - exactly what Shapiro’s critics don’t want you to hear.
As an ideological refresher on what the West got right, Shapiro’s book gets the job done.
Shapiro cavorts through 3,000 years of intellectual history in the span of about 250 pages, offering a perspicuous, “user-friendly” dive into some of our civilization’s biggest ideas.
Shapiro cavorts through 3,000 years of intellectual history in the span of about 250 pages, offering a perspicuous, “user-friendly” dive into some of our civilization’s biggest ideas.
Ben Shapiro is blessed with the gift of taking complicated ideas and making them catchy. Here he applies that gift to the story of Judeo-Christian civilization, from Moses and Solon to its culmination in the modern American republic. It’s a beautiful song, and Shapiro sings it beautifully. But this is no lamentation, no threnody. It is a hymn of hope, and when you get to its end, I promise you will feel better.
This is a book for people dying to grow up - a book for a culture that risks devouring itself if the people who comprise it refuse to grow up. It’s a book most suitable for our immature, confused, complex but exceptionally promising time. I hope the wisdom it contains aids many a troubled soul in finding and treading the straight and narrow path forward and uphill. Everything we have built - everything we currently have in our great good furtune - depends more than we can possibly imagine on each of us managing to do precisely that.
It is easy to lose heart when we see tribalism and moral relativism washing across America. Ben Shapiro’s The Right Side of History is a ray of hope, showing a new generation of leaders how to defend the values that have made our country free and prosperous, and to do so with confidence and generosity.
Shapiro’s fans are legion—enough to constitute a political faction of their own. Every time he debates a pundit, student, or high-profile liberal, his fans immediately compile his remarks into YouTube clips.
Shapiro may be the most important conservative at work today. Iin his prolific output, forensic zeal and ability, love of the fray, exhausting schedule, adoption of new communications platforms, captive audience, and conservative ecumenism, Ben Shapiro resembles no one so much as the young William F. Buckley Jr.
[Shapiro is] exactly what the conservative movement needs...not just content to have people be dazzled by [his]brilliance; [he] actually go[es] out and confront[s] and tr[ies] to persuade, mobilize, motivate people.
Mr. Shapiro, 33, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is the cool kid’s philosopher, dissecting arguments with a lawyer’s skill and references to Aristotle.
A foe of extraordinary polemical agility.
Listeners familiar with the prolific author’s incendiary YouTube appearances will be pleasantly surprised by his performance of this audiobook, a well-crafted examination of why Western civilization is in danger of falling apart. Flawless phrasing and accurate interpretations are expected from author/narrators (who know exactly what they are trying to say), and Shapiro delivers in this regard. His performance projects vocal security, a comfortable authenticity that makes his more controversial ideas easy to hear. His unyielding emphasis on good and evil is unfashionable: His examples and remedies harken to times when complying with higher authority, both human and divine, created the purpose needed to fight large-scale wrongs like slavery, the Nazis, and the abandonment of huge swaths of people by their governments. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170096374 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 03/19/2019 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 804,822 |
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