The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues ― Jordan B. Peterson, bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life

latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone. He mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy and embarrassingly blatant contradictions that run rife through the current ‘woke’ vogue. ― Richard Dawkins

How can you not know about The Madness of Crowds? It’s actually the book I’ve just finished. You can’t just not read these books, not know about them. ― Tom Stoppard

Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today. ― Bernard-Henri Lévy

Simply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I’d just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing – or, indeed, provocative – than sanity. ― Sam Harris, author of five New York Times bestsellers and host of the Making Sense podcast.

This is an author who specialises in expressing what everyone sort of knows already and is afraid to say ... well argued, well supported and well observed ― Lionel Shriver, The Times

Graceful and witty ― Guardian

Necessary and provocative ― Evening Standard

Murray’s book performs a great service ― Financial Times

Fascinating … Much of what Murray writes is pertinent and hard to disagree with ― Sunday Times

Murray is a superbly perceptive guide through the age of the social justice warrior ― Daily Telegraph

Douglas Murray is a regular columnist for both the Spectator and Standpoint and writes frequently for a variety of other publications, including the Sunday Times and Wall Street Journal. A prolific debater, Douglas has spoken on a variety of prominent platforms, including at the British and European Parliaments and the White House. He is the author of The Sunday Times bestsellers The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds.