Douglas Murray appeared as a featured speaker at PragerU’s West Coast Gala in Los Angeles this past Saturday. Someone in the audience took the video below. Eve Barlow and several others have tweeted it out on X. It’s the only such video I can find online.
As always, Murray is the voice of decency and reason. There is much that is worth hearing in the video. If you check it out, hang in there for Murray’s discussion of a famous scene from King Lear. Murray quotes C.S. Lewis on the scene:
In King Lear, there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely “First Servant.” All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine long-term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion of how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it.
His sword is out and pointed at his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted.
I thought some readers might want to take this in.
Douglas Murray at the PragerU gala tonight in LA reacting both to Mamdani’s election and the Heritage controversy. It’s a privilege to listen to a true individual thinker. @DouglasKMurray pic.twitter.com/siYhk03Rs6
— Eve Barlow (@Eve_Barlow) November 9, 2025
Murray refers to his discussion of King Lear in the PragerU Book Club video with Michael Knowles. I’m posting it below as well.
