I discussed current events and the ideas in my new book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, with John Anderson, the former deputy prime minister of Australia who is unfailingly thoughtful and wise.
What’s been so interesting about these podcast discussions I’ve been having about my book is that they’ve all gone in different directions reflecting my host’s particular interests. John and I discussed Israel’s hostage trauma, President Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” remark, the big lie of Palestinianism and the pathological reaction of “liberal progressives” to the onslaught against Israel, as well as Islamism, multiculturalism, the equation of antisemitism and Islamophobia and the key role of Judaism in western civilisation. You can access the discussion by clicking on the arrow below.
Meanwhile, the Spectator has published a very fine review of my book by Sir William Shawcross (whose father, Sir Hartley Shawcross, was the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg tribunal that tried Nazi war criminals). Here’s his conclusion:
A final note from history. In January, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Jewish Chronicle published moving photos of Jewish women as they were freed from the death camp in January 1945. The same week, Israeli women hostages in Gaza were photographed surrounded by terrifying crowds of masked Hamas gunmen. For Jews, the threats never change. The big difference, which Phillips displays admirably, is that in 1945 the Nazi Jew-killers were defeated. Today, the Islamist Jew-killers are rampant. The West needs to trust in its roots to defeat these new Nazis.
You can read the whole review here.
*** My new book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, can be bought on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk