Why the West Needs the Jewish People

The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They Can Save It, by Melanie Phillips (Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press, 320 pages, $32.50)

Since publication of her book Londonistan in 2007, British-Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips has been a fearless critic of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Western elites. She now lives much of the year in Israel, and since the October 7 atrocities has unstintingly condemned the antisemitic hypocrisy of Western leaders for drawing false moral equivalence between Hamas’s war of extermination and Israel’s national self-defense. Those themes animate her latest book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They Can Save It, which deserves attention despite its flaws.

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Sam Negus

Sam Negus is a higher-education administrator and historian; he lives in southern Michigan.

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The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They Can Save It, by Melanie Phillips (Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press, 320 pages, $32.50)

Since publication of her book Londonistan in 2007, British-Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips has been a fearless critic of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Western elites. She now lives much of the year in Israel, and since the October 7 atrocities has unstintingly condemned the antisemitic hypocrisy of Western leaders for drawing false moral equivalence between Hamas’s war of extermination and Israel’s national self-defense. Those themes animate her latest book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They Can Save It, which deserves attention despite its flaws.