Douglas Murray (author)

Douglas Murray
Murray in 2019
Murray in 2019
BornDouglas Kear Murray
(1979-07-16) 16 July 1979 (age 45)
London, England
Occupation
  • Author
  • political commentator
EducationSt Benedict's School
Eton College (6th form)
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Period2000–present
Subject
  • Politics
  • culture
  • history
Notable works
Website
douglasmurray.net

Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979)[1] is a British author and conservative political commentator, cultural critic, and journalist. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018.

He is currently an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazine The Spectator, and has been a regular contributor to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, the Daily Mail, New York Post, National Review, The Free Press, and Unherd.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Murray is known for his criticism of immigration and Islam. His books include Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005), The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017), The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019) and The War on the West (2022).

Murray has been praised by conservatives, but strongly criticised by many progressives.[8][9][10][11] Articles in the academic journals Ethnic and Racial Studies and National Identities associate his views with Islamophobia[12][13] and he has been linked to far-right political ideologies[14] and the promotion of far-right ideas such as the Eurabia, Great Replacement, and Cultural Marxism conspiracy theories.[15][16][17][18]

  1. ^ "Who is Douglas Murray? Journalist seen to be surviving bomb blast near Gaza while on-air with Piers Morgan". The Economic Times. 9 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Douglas Murray". Henry Jackson Society. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. ^ "24/8/2016". BBC Newsnight. 24 August 2016. BBC. BBC Two. Retrieved 29 August 2016. And from our Oxford studio, Douglas Murray, Associate Editor of The Spectator
  4. ^ "Douglas Murray | The Free Press". The Free Press. 16 June 2024. Archived from the original on 6 May 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Douglas Murray". The Sun. Archived from the original on 15 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Douglas Murray | The Times & The Sunday Times". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Bill Maher and Guests Talk Tough About the Decline of Western Civilization in 'Real Time' Debate". 4 June 2022.
  8. ^ Ali, Ayaan Hirsi (2 February 2018). "Would Mark Twain Be Prevented From Speaking at Berkeley". Newsweek. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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  10. ^ Dori, Roni (29 July 2021). "Douglas Murray: 'What I Mind Is the Lie That a Man Can Become a Woman'". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  11. ^ Davies, William (19 September 2019). "The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray review – a rightwing diatribe". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  12. ^ Ekman, Matthias (2015). "Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38 (11): 1986–2002. doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1021264. S2CID 144218430. Retrieved 3 January 2021. Important Islamophobic intellectuals are, among others, Melanie Phillips, Niall Ferguson, Oriana Fallaci (d. 2006), Diana West, Christopher Hitchens (d. 2011), Paul Berman, Frank Gaffney, Nick Cohen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Douglas Murray (Kundnani 2012b, 2008; Carr 2006; Gardell 2010)
  13. ^ Allchorn, William (20 October 2019). "Beyond Islamophobia? The role of Englishness and English national identity within English Defence League discourse and politics". National Identities. 21 (5): 527–539. Bibcode:2019NatId..21..527A. doi:10.1080/14608944.2018.1531840. ISSN 1460-8944.
  14. ^ Multiple sources:
  15. ^ Pertwee, Ed (2020). "Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 211–230. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688. Ye'Or's Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis (2005) is the canonical work of the genre (Bangstad 2013; Larsson 2012), but extemporizations on her basic theme can be found in the work of many conservative writers during the late 2000s and 2010s, such as Melanie Phillips, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Douglas Murray and, more recently, Alt-Right-linked figures such as Lauren Southern and Raheem Kassam. The conclusive differentiator between counter-jihadist and more mainstream conservative laments about Western decline is the former's decidedly conspiratorial framing...
  16. ^ Yörükoğlu, Ilgın (2020). "We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security" (E-Book). Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27–51. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1_2. ISBN 978-3-030-45172-1. S2CID 226723768. Retrieved 6 January 2021. It is not only far-right political parties and 'alt-right' blogs that are fueling the fire of xenophobia. In our century, be it the Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on a Revolution in Europe (2009) that recapitulates the idea of a slow-moving Muslim barbarian invasion, along with the Muslim 'disorder, penury and crime', or the works by Douglas Murray and Thilo Sarrazin ..., a number of European and American best sellers have supplied the emotional force to the Eurabia conspiracy in particular and the alt-right in general.
  17. ^ Ramakrishna, Kumar (2020). "The White Supremacist Terrorist Threat to Asia". Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses. 12 (4): 1–7. JSTOR 26918075. This Great Replacement motif articulated by Murray, Camus and other prominent conservative intellectuals has been weaponised as a rallying cry for white supremacists around the world, including Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 and Tarrant, the Christchurch attacker, whose own manifesto posted online is called 'The Great Replacement'.
  18. ^ Stewart, Blake (2020). "The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism". Critical Sociology. 46 (7–8): 1207–1220. doi:10.1177/0896920519894051. S2CID 213307100. Acclaim for Murray's thought has been widespread, and ranges from liberal French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, who claimed him to be 'one of the most important public intellectuals today', to authoritarian anti-immigrant hardliners such as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who went so far as to promote The Strange Death of Europe on his Facebook page in Spring 2018... Murray's book [The Madness of Crowds] remodels a much older theory of so-called 'cultural Marxism', which has long history in far-right thought.