Douglas Murray (author)

Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray
	Murray in 2019
Born	Douglas Kear Murray; 16 July 1979 (age 44); London, England
Occupation	Author; political commentator;
Education	St Benedict's School ; Eton College (6th form)
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Period	2000–present
Subject	Politics; culture; history;
Notable works	Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2006); The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017); The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019);
Website
	douglasmurray.net

Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979)^[1] is a British author and conservative political commentator. 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.^[2]^[3]

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 conservative writers.^[4]^[5] Murray's critics have associated his views with Islamophobia^[6]^[7] and being linked to far-right political ideologies^[8] and the promotion of far-right ideas such as the Eurabia, Great Replacement, and Cultural Marxism conspiracy theories.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

^ "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.
^ "Douglas Murray". Henry Jackson Society. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
^ "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
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^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ 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)
^ 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.
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Multiple sources:
- Stewart 2020
- Kundnani 2012
- Lux & David Jordan 2019
- Busher 2013
- Bloomfield, Jon (2020). "Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12770. S2CID 211395195. In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that.
- Kotch 2018
- Hussain 2018
- Ahmed 2015
^ 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...
^ 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.
^ 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'.
^ 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.

[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

[:0-4] Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:2-5] Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Ekman-6] 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)

[Allchorn-7] 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.

[8] Multiple sources:
Stewart 2020

Kundnani 2012

Lux & David Jordan 2019

Busher 2013

Bloomfield, Jon (2020). "Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12770. S2CID 211395195. In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that.

Kotch 2018

Hussain 2018

Ahmed 2015

[9] Stewart 2020

[10] Kundnani 2012

[11] Lux & David Jordan 2019

[12] Busher 2013

[13] Bloomfield, Jon (2020). "Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12770. S2CID 211395195. In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that.

[14] Kotch 2018

[15] Hussain 2018

[16] Ahmed 2015

[9] 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...

[Yörükoğlu-10] 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.

[11] 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'.

[Stewart-12] 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.

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Douglas Murray
Murray in 2019
Born	Douglas Kear Murray (1979-07-16) 16 July 1979 (age 44) London, England
Occupation	Author political commentator
Education	St Benedict's School Eton College (6th form)
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Period	2000–present
Subject	Politics culture history
Notable works	Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2006) The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017) The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)
Website
douglasmurray.net