If We Want Western Civ Revitalized, We Can’t Leave It To Universities
We should be less concerned with getting elite universities to rededicate themselves to teaching the Western heritage, and more focused on making Western culture a reality in our lives.
Why Chinese Students Studying In America Need To Learn Shakespeare
It’s absurd to claim Sen. Tom Cotton was saying Shakespeare was American simply because he said Chinese students should learn about the playwright ‘from America.’ Shakespeare understood ordered liberty.
China Is An Adversarial Great Power, Not A Civilizational Rival
The Chinese regime is a strategic adversary. To compete, we’d need allies, regardless of their culture or values, including those with very similar culture to the Chinese.
It’s Time For Classical Architecture To Bring Down The Hideous Grey Totalitarians
Nothing riles the cultural relativists and totalitarians more than the classical Western canon. The movement to bring back classical architecture in both Britain and the United States is long overdue.
Vatican’s Amazon Synod Document Glorifies Tribal Culture And Condemns The West
A fusion of reflexive leftism and religious idiom, ‘Amazonia: New Ways’ is a showpiece of crisis-mongering and hostility toward technological development.
How ‘The Man In The High Castle’ Actually Reveals America’s Totalitarian Trends
Scarily, the permanent lies of totalitarianism — ‘survive at any price’ and ‘only material results matter’ — seem ascendant today in American politics.
Why Haven’t We Heard A Peep From Islamic Powers About China Brutalizing 1 Million Muslims?
It’s unthinkable that any other great power would get away without any backlash from either Islamic powers, Islamic civil society, or jihadist groups. And that is one of the biggest puzzles in foreign policy worth probing.
We Need Christian Nationalism Because Religious Neutrality Has Failed
Our religious liberty never proceeded from attempts at religious neutrality. It came precisely from the privileged position that Christianity has historically held in America and in the West.
Teacher Fired For Praising The West As Bringing ‘The Greatest Good To The Most’ People
The progress of Western civilization is a direct result of its openness to self-criticism and its confidence that our aspirational principles are right and just.
Why It’s Preposterous To Say Western Civilization Is About ‘Whiteness’
There are, of course, relatively simple ways to blow this objection to western civilization as ‘white civilization’ to smithereens, but many prefer the easy lie to the more complex truth.
How Overemphasizing Individualism Made Liberalism Morally Bankrupt
As a political theory for rational, autonomous adults, liberalism has no place for the dependent and disabled, against whom Western liberal nations are engaged in a quiet genocide.
Why Only Cultural Reactionaries Would Rebuild Notre Dame
Notre Dame’s fate is a reminder of the ravages of utilitarianism. What is the purpose of civilization if not the creation and preservation of timeless beauty and transcendent grandeur for posterity?
Saying Western Civilization Means White People Is As Dumb As A Box Of Rocks
What made Jewish and Christian faiths different from other faiths of the ancient world was their rejection of racial tribalism in favor of universal truths.
Podcast: How Religion Sustains The West’s Democratic Ideals
Writer Sohrab Ahmari joins the Federalist Radio Hour for a conversation on secularism, religion in newsrooms, populism, and more.
Interview: Dennis Prager On Western Values, Jewish Leftism, And Censorship
Prager talks with Ben Weingarten about his conservative views, religiosity, reason versus emotion, Western values in immigration policy, and social media.
How Athens’ Foresight Saved Ancient Greece From Invading Persians
Themistocles convinced the Spartans to join the Athenians to fight and ultimately crush the Persians at the Battle of Plataea in 479 B.C.
Europe Is Dying, New Book Warns, And The Consequences Could Be Dire For The West
The distinguishing feature of modern Europe is its persistent ennui, shown in the inability or unwillingness ‘to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument.’
40 Years Later, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Speech Blazes A Beacon For Renewal
The Soviet Union has fallen, and some might like to think that Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘bitter truth’ is a relic of a happily bygone era. Not so. His speech is even more relevant today.
The West Isn’t Committing Suicide, It’s Dying Of Natural Causes
Jonah Goldberg’s ‘Suicide of the West’ fails to acknowledge that the threat to liberal democratic capitalism is far deeper than tribalism or nationalism gone awry.
Is Dr. Jordan Peterson A Gateway Drug to Christianity, Or Just A Highbrow Joel Osteen?
Because of his understanding of rationalism and psychological emphasis, Jordan Peterson prepares the soul more for Gnostic spirituality than Christian orthodoxy.
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