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.
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