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The fight for civilization in higher education

Western civilization

Education

The fight for civilization in higher education

The ‘School of General Education Act’ insists that all students in a state’s public university system take a prescribed sequence of courses that will take them through most of Western history

Peter W. Wood

Grumpy people can save civilization

People fear being seen as bossy, interfering busy-bodies. But such people were often a force for social good

Cosmo Landesman

Facing the facts of the West

In the years to come, we will have to persuade rather than compel other nations

Henry Olsen

Traditionalism: the school of thought that links Putin, Bannon and Jordan Peterson

Gueron thought that the proper source of authority was spiritual. Peterson locates it in competence

Stuart Jeffries

Books

Milan Kundera’s ‘transcendental buffoonery’

A look at the late Czech novelist’s legacy and philosophy

Roger Kimball

Culture
October 23, 2022
She was the Queen of the West
Elizabeth II was the embodiment of certain Western values close to my heart
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Prejudices
October 10, 2022
The slumber of the Anglosphere
Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?
Chilton Williamson, Jr.
Education
July 7, 2022
The culture war over the Middle Ages
The left thinks it was too white while the Catholic New Right sees much to admire
David Marcus
International
May 26, 2022
Can the West fix itself?
The war in Ukraine may be just the first test of the western alliance
Douglas Murray
Russia
March 15, 2022
The strange ideology that could be driving Putin
Eurasianism, as it’s called, sees a common historical destiny for all the non-Russian peoples of Russia
Peter W. Wood
Culture
January 3, 2022
How the 1960s institutionalized us
The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams
Roger Kimball
International
November 18, 2021
What Bernard-Henri Lévy sees for the West
I have come to ask Lévy about the future of the West — if, that is, he feels there will be one
David Patrikarakos
International
June 23, 2021
Why the West is best
Western civilization may not be perfect, we haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else in human history
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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