Western Civilization
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Transmitting Western Civilization February 13, 2025
“What is civilization?” When confronted with what appears to be civilizational disintegration, many writers and scholars have attempted to answer this question. For instance, Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” mini-series, which aired in 1969, celebrated...
The Ghettoization of Western Civilization in Universities February 05, 2025
In December, Inside Higher Education published a profile of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The essay examines the research specialties and intellectual affiliations of several facu...
The War for Western Civilization July 04, 2024
America’s elite universities are at war with Western civilization. And the public is finally starting to notice.Claudine Gay, the archetype of the modern university professor and administrator, was forced to resign as president of Harvard after she f...
How Revolution Happens—and How to Stop It March 21, 2024
I think we underrate just how boring identity politics is.Obviously, it’s an attack on Western civilization, but on a more prosaic level, it’s just very tiresome, because when you’re talking about identity politics, what are you talking about? You. A...
