The true heritage of the West

Both atheists and believers should promote the core values of a culture in trouble

While in Washington DC, I sat down to discuss my new book with Victoria Coates, Vice-President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation and a former deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump in his first administration.

We discussed the vital role of biblical religion in creating the civilised values of the west; how the onslaught on those values by the west’s cultural elites hasn’t made their societies either happy or rational; and how the west has the means of rescuing itself if it learns key lessons in resilience from the Jewish people, whose unique selling point is cultural survival.

As Victoria says, the message of the book is ultimately a hopeful one in its call for a coalition of those from every grouping, culture and ethnicity, and people from all religions and none, who love and admire the west and want to uphold and defend its core principles — and who could thus change the cultural climate from demoralisation to inspiration.

To listen to our conversation, please click the arrow below.

*** 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