Category: Civilization

Why Socialists Want to Destroy Western Civilization and Christianity | Prof. DiLorenzo

What is the Aim of Political Correctness? Why do socialists want to destroy Western civilization and Christianity? What does multiculturalism really represent? Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo starts with a quote from the book “Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis” by Ludwig von Mises, first published in German by Gustav Fischer Verlag in Jena in 1922. Thomas James DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business.

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Do Great Civilizations Collapse?

Victor Davis Hanson joins to discuss his book “The End of Everything,” the rare cases where entire civilizations were obliterated (Carthage, Constantinople, Tenochtitlan), and the warning signs that history could repeat itself. He argues that modern arrogance blinds us into thinking progress and science make collapse impossible, even though the 20th century was the deadliest in human history. Hanson explains why Trump’s nationalist-populist agenda is a true counter-revolution, targeting the Left’s long march through institutions, and why the cultural and political shift under way may determine America’s survival.

Jillian Michaels: Civilization in Freefall; What Illegal Immigration, Dei, and Ivy Indoctrination Have in Common

Jillian Michaels sits down with historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson to expose the real-world consequences of liberal fantasy policies — DEI's erosion of meritocracy, crippling costs of open borders, systemic indoctrination and more. We then tackle the Daryl Cooper controversy, Putin’s endgame in Ukraine, Trump’s stance on Iran, and how the elite class has abandoned the working American. Is systemic racism a myth? Can tariffs and economic nationalism save a crumbling civilization? Or are we already too far gone? 

Victor Davis Hanson: Strong Fathers Build Civilizations—Weak Ones Lose Them

As we approach Father’s Day on June 15th, Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the vital, often forgotten role of fathers in shaping strong families and a strong nation. In a culture that increasingly downplays masculinity and the traditional family, Hanson calls for a reevaluation of fatherhood—not as an optional accessory, but as a cornerstone of moral courage, responsibility, and strength on today's episode of "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words." “ One of the roles of fathers is to give young children, especially males, a sense of direction. And almost this tragic sense that sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do, but somebody else doesn't do them, you're going to be in trouble. “To the degree this country will make it, it will be a strong father figure that instructs us how to be masculine. How to be a man. How to protect the weak. How to stand up and challenge bullies that prey on the weak and the innocent. And that's a lost art now.

Jihad vs. Civilization

The David Horowitz Freedom Center speaks the truths no one else will say.

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/jihad-vs-civilization/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:


[The “Jihad Vs. Civilization: The Truth About The Hamas War On Israel” digital ebook is available at the Front Page Magazine store.]

After Oct 7, the journalists, scholars and thinkers with the David Horowitz Freedom Center rallied to tell the truth about what was happening in Israel and around the world.

While the media covered up the real story, we told it in bracing and unflinching language.

The titles of articles like “Genocide The true roots of Islamic Jew-hatred” and “The Enemy Within: Islamic Nazis” by David Horowitz, “Look, Mom, I Killed Some Jews!” by Robert Spencer and “Savages” by Daniel Greenfield reflected the raw truths that we alone were speaking.

This was not a border dispute, it was not about land or even Israel, but about the primal confrontation between civilization and a Jihad dedicated to conquering or destroying it.

Three months later, as leftists and Hamas supporters rampage across our cities, disrupt Christmas tree lightings, attack Holocaust museums and churches, block bridges and airports, the truths told in these articles and many others are more important than ever before.

That is why we have compiled twenty of them into “Jihad Vs. Civilization: The Truth About The Hamas War On Israel” with over 150 pages of compelling facts, ‘follow-the-money’ exposes and clear statements about what this war really is, what it means for us and how to win it.

“Jihad Vs. Civilization” is not just a compilation of articles, it’s a distillation of some of the most important things we need to know about this fight which looks beyond the day-to-day battles to peels back the financial and political layers of who has really been backing and funding this war.

This is an ebook that tells the truth about Islam as only courageous warriors like David Horowitz and Robert Spencer can do, but it also shows how the Biden administration, nonprofits, universities and even the IRS are complicit in aiding the leftist-Islamist campaign of terror.

Where else could you read, for example, that as David Horowitz writes, “The roots of Islamic Jew hatred… actually go back more than a thousand years to the prophet Mohammed.”

And where else could you learn that, “when Biden restored aid to the terrorists, Israeli casualties shot up 900%.They rose every year Biden was in office, up another 82% from 2021 to 2022. Even before the horrifying atrocities of the conclusion of the Jewish High Holy Days, twice as many Israelis had been killed in one month of Biden than in one year of Trump. The money kept on rolling in even days before the attacks when UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield declared herself ‘proud to announce the United States is providing more than $73 million in additional funding to support UNRWA’” which is just a UN front for Hamas.

There are ‘inconvenient truths’ here that Al Gore wouldn’t touch with a thousand foot pole.

“Our special envoys and diplomats mistakenly take it for granted that enough Palestinian Arabs truly want ‘two lands living side by side in peace,’ rather than follow their faith’s command that any land conquered by Muslims remains Islamic forever,” Bruce Thornton writes. They “dismiss this obvious fact as an ‘Islamophobic’ slur, despite decades of Palestinian Arabs telling us that ‘diplomatic engagement’ and ‘agreements’ are mere tactics sanctioned by Islam.”

And there are compelling doses of reality here that must be spread far and wide.

“What retaliation is ‘proportionate’ to the burning alive of families?” Mark Tapson asks. “This notion of ‘proportionate response’ is entirely bogus. It is nothing more than a fake moral demand from Israel’s left-wing enemies to prevent her from defending herself. Only Israel is expected to respond ‘proportionately’ to ongoing terror attacks from an organization whose commitment to eradicating the Jewish state is enshrined in its own charter.”

Before Harvard’s Claudine Gay made headlines for her openness to Jewish genocide, Bruce Bawer wrote that, “Harvard has over 1.3 administrators per student. Most of these people are superfluous at best and mischief-makers at worst – DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) bureaucrats who strive to protect students from ‘microaggression’ but who shrug indifferently at cries of ‘kill the Jews.'”

“Jihad Vs. Civilization: The Truth About The Hamas War On Israel” pulls no punches whether it’s going after Students for Justice in Palestine, “so convinced of their political invulnerability that they openly quote Hamas and celebrate rape, kidnapping and murder”, the Biden administration “the murdered Israelis, the raped women and the caged children, fulfilled the foreign policy aims of the Biden administration which were to weaken Israel” or Islam “the call to murder the Jews – ‘every last one’ – and to behead them as infidels, is part of the sacred texts of Islam.”

This is an ebook that encompasses what the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been doing all along, no matter how unpopular it may be, and that is telling the unfiltered truth.

After the Hamas attacks, a 2010 video of David Horowitz at UC San Diego went viral in which he asked a member of the Muslim Students Association , “I am a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For or Against it?”

And she replied, “For it.”

Behind that video was much more than just a single moment.

David Horowitz, Robert Spencer and many of the others quoted in the ebook had been warning about the civilizational threat of the Jihad and fighting it long before it was in the headlines.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center went on campuses where we faced threats, violence and even arrests for telling the truth about Islamic terror (that’s another story told in this ebook), we campaigned, exposed and kept on speaking out even when we were targeted by administrators, a powerful government agency and when we had to go to court to defend our rights.

“Jihad Vs. Civilization” is our latest entry in the fight to save civilization from its enemies. It’s the story of the real war on the battlefield of ideas that is taking place in our streets, our campuses and our government. It will arm you with the facts and the truths we need to fight back.

The “Jihad Vs. Civilization: The Truth About The Hamas War On Israel” digital ebook is available at the Front Page Magazine store.

Savages: Civilization and savagery are fundamentally at war.

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Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.


[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

We’re in a war between savages and civilization. Everything else is a detail.

Some of us woke up to that war when planes crashed into skyscrapers. Others when we saw beheading videos spread across social media. What we saw in Israel, Hamas terrorists raping, mutilating, and defiling corpses, is another bloody wake-up call. There will be many others.

Beyond the politics and the geopolitics, we still haven’t come to terms with what we’re fighting.

The barbarism of murdering women and children, taking them as hostages, and posting photos of their dead bodies to social media, is not a byproduct of Islamic warfare, it’s the whole point.

Cruelty, beheading, burning to death, torturing, and mutilating are the essence of Islam. This is how Islamic warfare was practiced beginning with Mohammed for over a thousand years. It’s how it continues to be practiced, whether it’s ISIS fighting other Muslims, Azerbaijani troops killing Armenians, Hamas attacking Israelis, or Islamic terrorists plotting carnage in Western nations.

Islam was born out of a war by barbarians against the civilized societies of Persia and Byzantium. Despite academic mythmaking, its vision never extended beyond rape and slavery, its empires fell into power struggles, beginning with Sunnis and Shiites, and its cultural and scientific accomplishments were all looted from conquered peoples. When civilization finally toppled the Ottoman Empire with some help from its internal barbarians, the cycle began again.

Israel is just one front in a global war between savages and civilization. And not all of the savages bow to Allah. There are inner-city, gangs across the American hemisphere that behead and torture their victims. And there are children of civilization that turn into savages. Savagery is not a condition of birth: it is a choice. People born into savagery can become civilized and those born into the highest echelons of civilization can prey on us like the worst vicious animals.

The question is how do civilized societies confront savagery? Do we blame ourselves for having made the savages what they are through our capitalism and colonialism even though they have behaved this way long before modern western civilization amounted to anything? Or do we set forth to reeducate them, build modern nations for them, and teach them to become civilized?

We have sent forth our sons and daughters to make peace with them and to educate them. Our societies opened themselves to embrace and celebrate the virtues of the noble savage. When we realized that we could not coexist with savages, we tried to remake our societies to serve them. All of that has been tried and civilization is still drowning in the violence of the savages.

The fundamental truth is that civilization and savagery are innately at war with one another.

Savages are offended by the existence of civilization. When they see one, they want to destroy it. There can be no peace with savages because, contrary to Islam, peace is a condition of civilization. To have peace, you must be civilized. Savages don’t even view peace as a value apart from the conclusion of a successful conquest which then sets the stage for the next one.

Civilized people develop complex mechanisms of exchange, but savages see no reason why they shouldn’t take something or someone if they are too weak to defend themselves. No amount of lectures will ever convince a savage that anything other than clan relations should prevent him from stealing a car or raping a woman if there will be no clear consequences.

That’s because savages, unlike civilized people, have no conscience, and therefore no soul.

Islam, unlike Judaism and Christianity, is not a religion of the soul, but entirely of power. From its genocidal chant, “Allahu Akbar” which proclaims the physical supremacy of Allah to all other religions through the military victories of its followers, everything is reduced to conquest. The truth of Islam is validated through war. When Jihadists conquer and rape non-Muslims, they are proving that Islam is true and that the religions of the conquered are false. That’s why ISIS Jihadists would tell the Yazidi girls they were raping that rape brought them “closer to Allah”

Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?

These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. A manwhich at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.

But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their people endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.

Much like a hurricane reminds us of the alternative to houses and famine reminds us of the alternative to food, savages remind us of the alternative to civilization. Unfortunately, truly decadent civilizations need constant reminders of all of these things. We have to be constantly told that food doesn’t magically emerge from a supermarket, that houses are not the natural state of being and that not being murdered by savages in your home is a new way of life.

Tolerate savages, give them enough rope and they will do all of these things to you. And more.

Savagery should not be confused with stupidity. Civilizations have been brought down by savages and civilizations were built by savages who became civilized. Savages are clever and cunning. They are alert to the weaknesses of civilized people and experts at finding ways around whatever walls and security systems that civilized people build to protect themselves.

Civilizations that spend enough time allowing savages to hang around will fall. Tolerating savages is actually a sign that a civilization has turned decadent. Welcoming and advocating for savages means that the end is nigh. Viable civilizations drive savages away. They do it not just to protect themselves but because banishing savages is what makes a civilization civilized.

When civilizations forget what the difference between themselves and the savages is,, they lose their sense of right and wrong, and they can no longer explain why savagery is wrong. When faced with the worst imaginable crimes, they can still equivocate a case for the criminals.

Hamas terrorists can rape and kill their victims, and defenders will rally to explain why the issue is actually more complicated than it seems. This happens with Islamic terrorists all the time.

Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her, and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.

That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies, or sympathy, not only to win but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.

A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.

Civilizations are built on the suppression of savagery: both internally and externally.. When civilizations defeat savages, learning, art, science, and ideas thrive. When civilizations allow savages to ravage them, they lose their people, their morality, and eventually their existence.

No form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery. It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all the ideas of Western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India, possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age.

Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.

Our grandchildren will either make great things or they will be hunted by roaming savages like the teenage girls at a concert in Israel or those similarly hunted in venues in Europe.

All the hopes of mankind depend on the utter and total defeat of the savages, not just in Israel, but in America, in Europe, in India and Asia, and around the world. This is not the struggle of any single nation, but the crisis of mankind. Either humanity will rise or we will fall.

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Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.