Last Monday, our columnist received the Alexander Hamilton Award for his ‘unwavering defense of Western values.’ Watch and read his brilliant acceptance speech.
These are words worth memorializing. How powerful and true! I have been to Israel three times and would like to visit again. It is on my. bucket list at age 76 years! Many thanks, Douglas. I look forward to your next book which, I trust, will include these words and truths!
Inspiring and eloquent. I mentioned to my wife after reading and listening to many of the articles produced in the Free Press since October 7th that I had changed my mind about something. Israel is a place I want to visit someday before I die. Yes, to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to experience the biblical history in person is of interest. However, I would, above all else, want to experience the strong, courageous Israeli people. I feel I have a lot to learn from them.
For the information of your readers, a former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Robert Briscoe, was Jewish. The Israeli General, Chaim Herzog, a famous commander in the 1967 war, was the son of a Dublin rabbi. The Irish people have long been supportive of their fellow Irishmen and Irishwomen of the Jewish faith.
It's not just the young people in our country who have no loyalty to our values, there's plenty of middle-aged, older folks who feel the same. Which is how the younger generation came to learn to see the US as oppressors. We have become very soft and complacent. God help us if we should be attacked! There's not many that would be in the foxhole.
Great speech by Douglas Murray. It made me think more broadly about the nature of the British and American generations who in such large numbers support Hamas (and both my sons are part of this age range.)
They seem truly possessed of a number of beliefs that allow them to defy the instincts to be patriotic, humanist and guardians of the culture of their parents. They truly feel superior to what has gone before them. They will permit cruelty towards people they don’t know on the basis of age, skin colour and musical taste because they have absorbed flimsy theories about history, money and power. At the root of this mindset is an attitude towards previous generations such as baby boomers which are ill informed, myopic and ignorant of forms of hardship and love they have never known themselves.
Academics, newspapers, marketers, teachers and artists who have cultivated this mindset are to blame but even they cannot be credited with the creation of the hypnotic and self-destructive Weltanschauung inherited by our children.
This is the nature of the crisis. Hatred of the cultural self and a readiness to self-destruct in the pursuit of an incoherent and reckless life path that can only result in authoritarianism, oppression and misery. (I do not sense one ounce of exaggeration in my own choice of words).
I have never been so moved by a speech. We are blessed to have Douglas Murray in our generation. He is a beacon of moral clarity in a dark and terrifying world. Always choose life! Thank you, Mr. Murray!
This is a truly great speech and in impeccable prose, I might add. He is right about the wake up call needed: true nihilism is the ultimate evil. If it has apologists, it is from those who are too unaware and under informed to comprehend their own ignorance.
Wow - could not be said better. Thank you Douglas!
Thank you for your eloquence .
Humbling.
Brilliant. Moving. Thank you!
These are words worth memorializing. How powerful and true! I have been to Israel three times and would like to visit again. It is on my. bucket list at age 76 years! Many thanks, Douglas. I look forward to your next book which, I trust, will include these words and truths!
Magnificent!!!!!
Inspiring and eloquent. I mentioned to my wife after reading and listening to many of the articles produced in the Free Press since October 7th that I had changed my mind about something. Israel is a place I want to visit someday before I die. Yes, to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to experience the biblical history in person is of interest. However, I would, above all else, want to experience the strong, courageous Israeli people. I feel I have a lot to learn from them.
מלך!
For the information of your readers, a former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Robert Briscoe, was Jewish. The Israeli General, Chaim Herzog, a famous commander in the 1967 war, was the son of a Dublin rabbi. The Irish people have long been supportive of their fellow Irishmen and Irishwomen of the Jewish faith.
Just gorgeous!!! What a well deserved award.
It's not just the young people in our country who have no loyalty to our values, there's plenty of middle-aged, older folks who feel the same. Which is how the younger generation came to learn to see the US as oppressors. We have become very soft and complacent. God help us if we should be attacked! There's not many that would be in the foxhole.
The world is lucky to have Douglas Murray in it.
If you’re going to only read one thing k on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, read this.
Thank you.
Great speech by Douglas Murray. It made me think more broadly about the nature of the British and American generations who in such large numbers support Hamas (and both my sons are part of this age range.)
They seem truly possessed of a number of beliefs that allow them to defy the instincts to be patriotic, humanist and guardians of the culture of their parents. They truly feel superior to what has gone before them. They will permit cruelty towards people they don’t know on the basis of age, skin colour and musical taste because they have absorbed flimsy theories about history, money and power. At the root of this mindset is an attitude towards previous generations such as baby boomers which are ill informed, myopic and ignorant of forms of hardship and love they have never known themselves.
Academics, newspapers, marketers, teachers and artists who have cultivated this mindset are to blame but even they cannot be credited with the creation of the hypnotic and self-destructive Weltanschauung inherited by our children.
This is the nature of the crisis. Hatred of the cultural self and a readiness to self-destruct in the pursuit of an incoherent and reckless life path that can only result in authoritarianism, oppression and misery. (I do not sense one ounce of exaggeration in my own choice of words).
I have never been so moved by a speech. We are blessed to have Douglas Murray in our generation. He is a beacon of moral clarity in a dark and terrifying world. Always choose life! Thank you, Mr. Murray!
This is a truly great speech and in impeccable prose, I might add. He is right about the wake up call needed: true nihilism is the ultimate evil. If it has apologists, it is from those who are too unaware and under informed to comprehend their own ignorance.
This speech should be required reading in all Grievance Studies classes at universities across the US.