The West Is Good: The Values Behind Civilization’s Prosperity

The past decade has seen many in the West engage in an unprecedented campaign of cultural self-flagellation and a rejection of Western and Enlightenment values. That the West is good rather than evil has become morally suspect at best and grounds for threats and violence at worst.

Polarized critics from within perceive the downfall of the West, preaching inequality, “down with imperialism,” “tax the rich,” environmental apocalypse, racial injustice and systematic oppression, fascism, and a hundred other pessimistic railings of the self-proclaimed champions of the proletariat.

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Tony Morley

Tony Morley is a progress studies writer and researcher. He was formerly a fellow at the Archbridge Institute and at O’Shaughnessy Ventures.

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The past decade has seen many in the West engage in an unprecedented campaign of cultural self-flagellation and a rejection of Western and Enlightenment values. That the West is good rather than evil has become morally suspect at best and grounds for threats and violence at worst.

Polarized critics from within perceive the downfall of the West, preaching inequality, “down with imperialism,” “tax the rich,” environmental apocalypse, racial injustice and systematic oppression, fascism, and a hundred other pessimistic railings of the self-proclaimed champions of the proletariat.