America has a God-shaped gap in its heart, argues NY Times bestselling writer Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn’t fill it with politics and hate.

In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. A huge selection of police officers had been required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, that was — ironically — about the need for free speech and rational argument.

He came to argue that American Civilization is amid a crisis of purpose and tips. Our freedoms are built about The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God’s picture and that humans were created with reason capable of exploring God’s globe.

We are able to thank these beliefs for the birth of technology, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, serenity, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens constructed America, finished slavery, defeated the Nazis as well as the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and provided billions religious purpose. Jerusalem and Athens had been the foundations of the Magna Carta as well as the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Notice from Birmingham Prison.

Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dirt. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian ideals and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” – plus they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis declined Judeo-Christian values and Greek organic law, plus they shoved kids into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian beliefs and Greek organic law, and citizens of their oil-rich country have been decreased to eating dogs.

We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian beliefs and Greek normal law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of enthusiasm. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we are able to reject Judeo-Christian beliefs and Greek organic laws and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or technological materialism, or intensifying politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.

We can’t.

The Western world is special, and in THE PROPER Side of Background, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because way too many of us have shed sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark caution, and a call to spiritual hands, this book could be the first rung on the ladder in getting our civilization back again on track.