The Erasure of Western Civilization

December 10, 2025

Dear readers, I post a lot of interviews, and I know that it takes time that you can use for other purposes to listen to them.

I understand that people view my interviews because they trust me to tell them the truth as far as I can ascertain it and not to deceive them with a narrative that serves some special interest that is paying me. Indeed, the fact that I try to ascertain what is the truth and to report it is the reason that I am so often interviewed.

Some of my interviews are worth more than others. The latest one with Nima on Dialogue Works is one that I have high confidence in its truth.  This is an important interview due to Nima’s provocative questioning.

People in the Western world are accustomed to threats being confined to external enemies, such as the Soviet Union and today Putin’s Russia, China and Islamists in Iran. But the real threat to the West has nothing whatsoever to do with these countries. The threat to the West is internal in the structure of Western ideas that have been unfolding for a century and that demonize the existence of the western world as a racist collection of white supremacists who exploit and suppress people of color. This narrative creates hatred both internal and external of white Western Civilization. It destroys white self confidence and deprives white ethnicities of the ability to defend themselves. The demonization of Western Civilization is institutionalized in Western education.

These ideas receive no attention. No thought is given to their destructive impact. No one wonders how a culture can be discredited by its own educational system and expect to remain a viable entity.

My interview by Nima, provoked by his questions, brings out the true nature of the threat against western civilization. I recommend this interview, and I hope it succeeds in making the Western world aware of the real threat that it faces before it erases itself.

I appear at the 57 minute mark.

The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.