The full title is The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.

It was just released (19March) and I'm about ¼ of the way through it.

It attempts to answer two questions:
1- Why is everything so good now?
2- Why are we fucking it up?

So far it's an excellent read & I'll be surprised if I don't learn a thing or two.

Regardless if whether or not you agree with him (sometimes I don't), Ben is one smart motherfucker.

Will be reading. Listen to his podcast...good stuff.

I finished the book and liked it, although Ben is quite a bit more religious than I am. Here's the gist of the book:


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/RVD0xik-_FM

Nice, concise. Tks for posting.

This was perhaps one of the finest books I've read in years. Decades, perhaps. Part philosophy, part history, Shapiro makes a good case for the return to the Judeo-Christian moral structure and Athenian teleology (finality: the study of evidences of design in nature, explaining phenomena by final causes). He does so by examining and providing numerous quotations from great philosophers in history, tracing paths from the ancients to the present through movements and schools of thought.

It's not light-hearted reading, but Shapiro doesn't plod through the material. Much as he does in his podcasts, he's quick, to the point, and doesn't speak down to the reader. I wondered about taking it along on my vacation, but it was easy to pick up and read, and I went cover to cover in just a couple of days.