The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro

We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. To underscore the importance of educating our children, he quotes Ronald Reagan: “‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is our job to reconnect with both the word of God and with the philosophy of reason and individual liberty - two words that are, after all, inextricably intertwined.” “We will do our best to teach them what made our civilization great - and what makes our civilization great still. How do we do that? In his case, he writes, he and his wife began by teaching their two children the values passed down to them by their own parents and through generations of parents before them. “It took Western civilization three thousand years to get here - we can lose it all in one generation unless we begin shoring up our foundation,” he writes. Shapiro provides an analysis of our current crisis, its causes and potential cures, advocating a return to the basic values upon which our civilization was built. In this strongly written survey of Western thought and cogent statement of democratic principle, Mr. Without question, there has been a fracturing, with a new politics of identity and entitlement being pushed and encouraged by an unusually hostile media and by cynical and opportunistic politicians with no scruples chasing votes. We were a community, forged in fire and tethered together by a set of values stretching back to the Garden of Eden - a community of individuals working to understand the values of each other as images of God, a community of individuals who believed in our own capacity to change ourselves and the world around us.”

We used to see each other as brothers and sisters, not ‘the 1 percent vs. We used to believe in the Founding vision. Shapiro, who has experienced first-hand the real and vicious mindlessness of that anger by mobs of protesters on campuses like Berkeley where he’s invited to speak - he’s reportedly the country’s most requested campus speaker - believe it’s the result of “the destruction of a common vision.

The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro