<p>Daily Wire editor-in-chief and author of The New York Times bestseller &#8220;<a href="https://amzn.to/2HjtBTp">The Right Side Of History</a>&#8221; Ben Shapiro hosts the latest video from Prager University, &#8220;Why Has The West Been So Successful?&#8221; in which he explains how Western Civilization has helped shape the history of the world for the good. </p>
<p>&#8220;Western civilization; it&#8217;s been around for a while, but suddenly everybody is talking about it. Some are anxious to save it; others are happy to see it go. But what exactly is Western civilization?&#8221; Shapiro begins.</p>

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