The roots of the West’s identity crisis

Marie Kawthar Daouda, author of Not Your Victim: How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us , speaks to EI’s Alastair Benn about the historical illiteracy of attempts to ‘decolonise’ Western culture. Instead, she argues that the moral complexities of history must be accepted in order to develop a genuine appreciation of the Western tradition. Image: ‘Ruins with an Obelisk in the distance’ by Hubert Robert (1775). Credit: Alamy

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The roots of the West’s identity crisis is an episode from Engelsberg Ideas Podcast.

This episode is 51:37 long.

This episode was published on Apr 16, 2026.

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