21 Questions Ben Shapiro Can’t Answer: A Response to The Right Side of History
Shapiro hasn’t wrestled with the most difficult questions about his worldview
In his book, The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro argues that Western civilization is the best civilization that has ever existed on Earth.
We’re the best, Shapiro’s reasoning goes, because we’ve embraced Judeo-Christian values from the Bible along with natural law from the ancient Greeks. To the extent we continue to embrace these traditions we’ll continue to enjoy material prosperity, freedom, and happiness. To the extent we reject these traditions, we’re toast.
Since the undercurrent here is that Western civilization is better than Eastern civilization, you’d think that somewhere along the way Shapiro would define what he means by “the East.” But he doesn’t. Is he thumbing his nose at Japan? South Korea? Thailand? It’s not clear.
Of course, given that Shapiro has written hateful generalizations about Palestinian Arabs such as “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage” and are a “population rotten to the core,” it’s likely that Shapiro has them in mind when he thinks about the East. Also, this seems like a good time to mention that a major theme of The Right Side of History is that America should…
