Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student demand.
Chief among the Big Lies currently being promulgated by the American Left is that Western culture is inherently racist, a manifestation of White Supremacy. This is not only nonsense but pernicious, ...
Humanities courses in America’s best universities are apt these days to denigrate, or even deny the reality of, Western civilization. Rare are classes devoted to transmitting Western civilization’s ...
If you regularly watch TV, you’ve probably seen a cartoon bear pitching you toilet paper, a gecko with a British accent selling you auto insurance and a bunny in sunglasses promoting batteries. This ...
My new book, The Lost History of Western Civilization, falsifies “deconstructionist” take-downs of the Western tradition and shows how the postmodern academy’s ...
Really read Joseph Ratzinger’s book. Powerful perspectives and correctives dot every page. Take, for example, the role of monasticism in preserving Western culture after the fall of the Roman Empire.
When I interviewed in 2022 for the job of Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the just-founded University of Austin (UATX), Pano Kanelos, the university’s founding president, asked me what I thought ...
In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Elon Musk made a shocking statement — one that cannot be ignored. He said that “the fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy.” According ...
Our students become knowledgeable in Western culture, thought and society, past and present, and are prepared to launch careers in business, diplomatic service, government, publishing, the arts and ...
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I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the ...
Western civilization is magnificent, our Judeo-Christian heritage is precious, and human achievement inspired by God is wondrous indeed. Such are the overarching impressions from my two weeks in Italy ...