Democracy Needs Its Villains

Douglas Murray, Darryl Cooper, and the Politics of Memory

I sat through two and a half hours of Douglas Murray and Dave Smith on the Joe Rogan podcast, and while it was a painful experience, it was also worth the price of admission. Rogan brought Murray and Smith on to debate the war in Gaza as well as the war in Ukraine. However, the first forty minutes were occupied by a long, finger-wagging digression by Mu…