![]() The thesis goes something like this: Western civilization in general, and America in particular, is great because we’ve managed to balance religion and reason in a way that drives material progress and satisfies our deep need for purpose at the same time. Instead, it’s a lamentation of the decline of religious values in American life. Unlike his previous books, this one does not take on an explicitly partisan tone. His book, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, is an attempt to rebrand himself as a high-minded intellectual, a kind of cross between Jordan Peterson and George Will. The New York Times called him a “provocative gladiator” and “the voice of the conservative millennial movement.” Now 35, he rose to fame as a 17-year-old wunderkind columnist and has been a central part of conservative discourse for the past decade and a half. He’s made a name for himself as a lib-owning, fast-talking logician, the sort of pundit who thrives in the age of Twitter. Ben Shapiro is arguably the most popular conservative commentator in the country. ![]()
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