And now for something completely different. You won’t find this book on those other quarantine reading lists. You won’t even find this nearly two-century-old great book in print. (Although you might ...

What is “Western Civilization”? When did the idea of the “West” become a commonplace, and what has it meant over the course of time? What role should the teaching of Western Civilization play in today ...

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 ...

The three-quarter History of Western Civilization common core sequence, a nearly 60-year-old legacy in the College, will undergo significant changes this fall. In response to declining enrollment in ...

Western civilization: Right-wingers want to save it; left-wingers say it is just a myth. Some see it as primarily racist or ecocidal, while others credit it with inventing human rights and democracy.

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate, 400-year Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...