
For Douglas Murray evil is not banal. It is real. It walks this earth, and we must call it by its name when we see it. When he spoke last week in the ICC Jerusalem, it was the greatness of Athens and Jerusalem meeting in defense of all that is good and great.
In an age of darkness and unreason, Douglas Murray carries the torch of Western values. His impassioned defense of Israel since October 7th is a defense of the West and all that is good in the world today.
While he is a man of culture and learning, Murray’s fame lies in his impassioned and brave defense of our values.
Murray understands that while Israel and the West beyond it are imperfect, Western values have created a civilization with unmatched moral breadth and have taken humanity from misery and brokenness, from lives that were “nasty, brutish, and short,” to ones so long that too many seem happy to lie back in convivium splendor and wait to be sacked. And sacked we shall be without Murray and without Israel.
As a graduate of Eton and Oxford – those torchbearers of the fading culture of the once Great Britain – Murray is a true British intellectual of the best tradition and indeed he was close with the late Sir Roger Scruton, one of the most perceptive British intellectuals of recent decades.