Preface to the Korean edition
Introduction - The Two Origins of Western Culture

1.
The Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness is a moral purpose / individual moral purpose / individual capacity / community moral purpose / community capacity / preparation for happiness

2.
On the mountain

The Universe According to Divine Order / God's Plan for Humanity / God, the Source of Power Behind Progress / The Most Important Passage in Human History / What Jerusalem Tells Us, and Doesn't Tell Us

3.
From the soil

Finding Purpose in Nature / The Birth of Science / Creating a Government Based on Reason / What Athens Tells Us, and What It Doesn't Tell Us

4.
Jerusalem and Athens as one

The Birth of Christianity / The Triumph of Christianity / The Flaw in Harmony

5.
What is bestowed upon us by the Creator

The Power of Science / The Continuing Progress of Science / The Rise of Classical Liberalism / The Birth of the Individual / The Triumph of America / The Climax

6.
Killing the purpose and destroying the capacity

From Virtue to Moral Relativism / Building with 'Reason Only' / The Death of Capacity / A Warning / The Triumph of the Will

7.
A world being remade

The Utopia of Nationalism / The Utopia of an Equal Society / The Utopia of Bureaucracy / The Great Disaster / A World Buried in Ashes

8.
Fire Forge

The New 'Natural Law' / The New Enlightenment / Is the New Enlightenment Sustainable?

9.
Return to Primitive Religion

The Trap Called Babbitt / "I'm on the Right Track" / The Birth of Intersectionality / The Triumph of the Victim Narrative / The End of Progress

Going Out - How to Rebuild

Acknowledgements
Translator's Note

Ben Shapiro, the standard-bearer of America's "young conservatives"
-“The essence of Western civilization is ‘purpose in life’ and ‘reason.’”

The Right Side of History (2019) is Ben Shapiro's latest and seventeenth book.
This is the second book to be introduced in a domestic translation, following 『Brain Washed』 (translated by Nam-gyu Lee, Giparang, 2018).

As a leading conservative commentator in the United States, Shapiro, who is active in writing, contributing, and podcasting to a degree that defies his age (born 1984, 36 years old), reaffirms in this book that ‘Jerusalem and Athens’, or ‘Judaism and reason’, are the two pillars that support Western civilization.
The 'purpose' and 'means' that make humans human and enable the survival and prosperity of individuals and communities come from this.

“Western civilization has given people the following four elements essential for human happiness:
The first is individual purpose, which gives us the awareness that life is precious and that we are each born with a unique mission in the universe.
The second is individual capacity, meaning that each of us has the ability to carry out the task.
The third is communal purpose, which means we can act together when needed and change the world in a meaningful way.
And the final concept, communal capacity, is based on the understanding that our system can protect individuals and that we can come together as one when necessary.” (Preface to the Korean edition, p. 10)

We must also not forget the warning that a proper human society cannot be built with only one of the two pillars.

“If we rely too much on religious values, we will face a theocracy.
On the other hand, if we only worship reason, a materialism-based tyranny can be born.”

The first mystery that opens the book has been solved.
'The reason we live so well today is because of Western civilization, which balances ends and means.' If that's the case, the 'West' in Western civilization is just an extra.
Among the countless civilizations that have risen and fallen throughout human history, only Western civilization has maintained the balance between the two pillars of 'end and means' in the most humane way.
Because only this 'civilization', which is the only correct one, is worth protecting (conserving) and must be so.
The right side can only be the right side.
This is why the Korean version is titled 'Right, Right Side'.

Anti-civilization forces of the 21st century
The Left, Scientism, and "Half of the Korean Peninsula"

A second mystery remains.
Why is a world so livable being destroyed? In the last century's war between civilization and anti-civilization, the most prominent forces opposing civilization were the totalitarian powers represented by Stalin, Hitler, and Mao Zedong.
Even if the destruction of those on the left/right side of history was their own doing, what about the suffering that hundreds of millions of people are still suffering because of it?

As modern anti-civilization forces of the 21st century that continue the legacy of fallen totalitarianism, the author cites the left, which has not been able to shake off the old dream of socialism, and the scientism that reduces humans to the level of mere beasts.
Oh, and don't be fooled by far-right totalitarianism disguised as right-wing (e.g., racism or the alt-right)! In the text, and in the preface written especially for Korean readers, the author cautions against the existence of North Korea, "the anti-civilization group on the Korean Peninsula."

“Today, the entire country of North Korea is one giant prison camp.
“In fact, this is not so surprising, because North Korea is simply faithfully inheriting the brilliant legacy of the communist states that existed in the past.” (Chapter 7, “The World Being Remade,” p. 269)

“If we look north of South Korea, we find a country that rejects the very premise of Western civilization.
The people of North Korea, a hellish communist country, have been suffering under the worst dictatorship.
“There is no other case on earth that reveals such a stark contrast in worldviews as South Korea and North Korea.” (Preface to the Korean edition, p. 8)

Could the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic be a wake-up call for those still recovering from the epidemic of totalitarianism and closed societies?

A look back at 3,000 years of Western civilization
-What is your 'Civilization Experience'?

The unexpected charm of this book lies in encountering the prominent names of the three thousand years of religious and intellectual history that have shaped (and nearly destroyed, or are attempting to destroy) Western civilization.

Moses, Solomon, Plato, Aristotle, Paul, Augustine, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hume, Voltaire, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson and the Founding Fathers, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, Kant, Kierkegaard, Bentham, Hegel, Darwin, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Max Weber, John Dewey, Freud, Lenin, Gramsci, Heidegger, Sartre, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Kinsey, Edward Wilson, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari

There are 45 people who have been given more than one page of the text.
'Know a little' or more: 3 points, 'Have heard of it': 2 points, 'Who is it?': 1 point - How much is your experience with civilization out of 135?