{"id":47,"date":"2018-12-07T23:19:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T07:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-12-08T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:52:12","slug":"what-is-killing-western-civilization-with-douglas-murray-claire-fox-and-yaron-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/what-is-killing-western-civilization-with-douglas-murray-claire-fox-and-yaron-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Killing Western Civilization? with Douglas Murray, Claire Fox and Yaron Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural observers have often noted that Europe \u2014 and, more broadly, Western civilization \u2014 despite historically unprecedented success, is in danger of losing itself. But what exactly is being lost, and why? And what can be done about it?<\/p>\n<p>In a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJZqKKFn3Hk\">panel<\/a>\u00a0discussion entitled \u201cWhat Is Killing Western Civilization?,\u201d Yaron Brook (chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute) and Douglas Murray (author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Death-Europe-Immigration-Identity\/dp\/1472958004\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\/?tag=aynrandorgnewideal-20\"><em>The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam<\/em><\/a>) met at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers lecture theatre in central London to discuss the future of Western civilization in the context of its own identity crisis and the growing trend of immigration to the West from those outside it \u2014 and, in some cases, hostile to it. The panel, moderated by Claire Fox (director and founder of Academy of Ideas), addressed such questions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is Western civilization?<\/li>\n<li>What is the nature of the crisis that the West faces?<\/li>\n<li>How should one think about immigration in today\u2019s world?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural observers have often noted that Europe \u2014 and, more broadly, Western civilization \u2014 despite historically unprecedented success, is in danger of losing itself. But what exactly is being lost, and why? And what can be done about it? In a recent\u00a0panel\u00a0discussion entitled \u201cWhat Is Killing Western Civilization?,\u201d Yaron Brook (chairman of the board of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[382,345,344,200,309,361,371,117,342,387,366,44,339,375,393,346,34,348,377,349,373,386,374,39,104,134,13,340,381,343,368,336,356,30,141,390,350,330,331,352,388,312,360,365,24,380,358,40,376,152,119,359,351,332,347,367,354,338,378,157,37,389,370,391,392,12,25,355,372,362,379,341,151,333,113,41,335,353,337,385,369,364,363,158,357,383,334,384,82],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-20th-century","tag-abstraction","tag-aristotelian","tag-aristotle","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-atheist","tag-capitalism","tag-catholic","tag-chairman-mao","tag-chantel-delsol","tag-christianity","tag-civilization","tag-claire-fox","tag-clive-james","tag-collective","tag-communism","tag-constitutional","tag-demagogue","tag-democracy","tag-don-cupitt","tag-donald-trump","tag-douglas-murray","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-enlightenment","tag-ethics","tag-ethnic","tag-eugenics","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-fascism","tag-founding-fathers","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom","tag-genocide","tag-german","tag-greece","tag-greek","tag-hegel","tag-hitler","tag-human","tag-humanity","tag-icarus-fallen","tag-ideas","tag-identity-politics","tag-ideology","tag-immigration","tag-india","tag-individual","tag-intellectual","tag-islam","tag-kant","tag-knowledge","tag-liberal","tag-mankind","tag-marx","tag-marxism","tag-meaning","tag-moral","tag-morality","tag-muslim","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-new-statesman","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-postmodern","tag-priest","tag-professor","tag-purpose","tag-race","tag-radical","tag-reality","tag-reason","tag-religion","tag-renaissance","tag-schopenhauer","tag-secular","tag-sharia","tag-states","tag-the-strange-death-of-europe","tag-thinker","tag-values","tag-wealth","tag-west","tag-world","tag-world-war-ii","tag-yaron-brook","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}