How Jews and Christians Built the West?
British journalist Melanie Phillips has a new book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It.
You can listen to an intriguing interview she did on the Brendan O’Neil below.
According to her substack, the book’s argument is:
The west is at a critical inflection point. With Donald Trump entering the White House for the second time, a new era is about to unfold. The challenges, however, are far deeper than many appreciate. For the failure by the west to choose civilisation over barbarism following the October 7 pogrom in Israel illustrates the decadence and cultural death-wish in the so-called civilised world, and its surrender to the Islamists gathering strength to conquer it.
The book puts forward a ten-point programme for a counter-cultural resistance movement, an alliance of all who want western civilisation to survive and which would reassert its foundational values.
This alliance must be drawn from all cultures and groups. However, if the west is to save itself it must listen to the Jewish people it has so frighteningly abandoned — whose unique selling point, after all, is cultural survival, and whose ideas and moral precepts lie at the core of Christianity and of western civilisation itself. While Israel will survive and thrive, the west is doomed unless it chooses to reaffirm its Jewish roots rather than destroy them.
I haven’t read the book, but I listened to the interview, and I think this is one of those things which I think is a bit “yes and no.”