For now, a better hope lies in building new institutions unencumbered by the corruption and self-hatred that infect the old,’ ...

At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance ...

Even a liberal professor concedes that ‘We in the universities’ are going ‘overboard with trying to boost some groups over ...

A light glimmered in the subfusc halls of academia this past September. Under the title “E Pluribus Unum,” Donald Kagan, the eminent classical historian, former director of athletics at Yale, and now ...

The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream among rulers and thinkers in Europe and North America. It sounds good, yet industrialization, the two world wars of the twentieth ...

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 1988, Penelope Spheeris released a documentary that the chief of the LAPD demanded, via a strongly worded letter, never be shown again in the city of Los Angeles. Forty years later, The Decline of ...

Monday, Oct. 10, in the year of our Lord 2022, was Columbus Day in the epic explorer’s America. Those of us of Italian heritage (my mother’s side) take special pride in the Genoa navigator’s truly ...

Mike Connolly is a retired teacher. He lives in Portland.

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 ...