Western Civilization

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/1/2022
  

  Today's Racial Controversies over Curriculum aren't New

  by Len Gutkin

  Some critics have described today's battles over curriculum and inclusion as more focused on racism than the multicultural debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Are they, really? 

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• 7/3/2022
  

  What Americans Might Learn About Political Collapse from the Classical Greeks and Romans

  by Daniel Noah Moses

  The right traces political turmoil in the US to the supposed abandonment of the classical canon. But reading those works might not teach the lessons they want about hierarchy, authority, and political collapse. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/23/2021
  

  No, Classics Shouldn’t ‘Burn’

  by James Kierstead

  A classicist offers a rebuttal to a recent critique of the field, arguing that practitioners are justified in evaluating a "western civilization" but do so from a multitude of perspectives.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/7/2020
  

  How Bad History Feeds Far-Right Fantasies

  by Thomas Lecaque

  A fellow medievalist argues that Jeff Fynn-Paul failed to read or understand the historical literature before writing a controversial recent essay exculpating Europeans for mass death in the course of colonialism.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/10/2020
  

  A New Theory of Western Civilization (Review)

  "The WEIRDest People in the World" is the latest addition to the Big History category. The outstanding feature of the genre is that it wrangles all of human existence into a volume or two, starting with the first hominids to rise up on their hind legs and concluding with us, cyborg-ish occupants of a networked globe.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  "Western Civ" Was Not a Late Invention

  by Stanley Kurtz

  America’s colleges taught Western civilization for centuries before the curricular disruptions of the 1960s, and the topic’s appeal was trans-partisan.

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• SOURCE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  4-23-14
  

  Why We Should Study the History of Western Civilization

  by Donald Kagan

  We need to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.