To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West. Envious minds populating much of the rest of the world fail at development, despise the Jewish people (the two usually go hand-in-hand), and obscure Jewish history.
Israel and Civilization is a manifesto—both a historical account and a call to action. It creates a theoretical foundation for a Jewish-Christian coalition to defend the West from the wicked troika of wokeism, Islamism, and global neoliberalism.
Hammer reaches back thousands of years in history to ground the Anglo-American political tradition in Hebrew moral teachings. The ancient Jewish idea of One True God to whom each individual answers, he explains, conditioned the soil for our moral, social, and cultural flourishing.
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