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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Civilizations rise and civilizations fall. But the greatest and most ...

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 ...

Marco Rubio gave a speech Saturday to the Munich Security Conference in which he extolled an ideal that’s supposedly long out of fashion. “We are part of one civilization: Western civilization,” the U ...

I recently saw the wonderful 1962 movie, “How the West Was Won,” which dramatized the westward expansion from the Erie Canal ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada is grappling with debates over national identity and security as well as international trade. Ottawa is navigating U.S. tariffs and Donald Trump’s threats of higher trade ...

The Core Curriculum is a central part of the Columbia College experience. Unlike its peer institutions, Columbia College has all first-years begin their college experiences with the “Iliad,” ...

One of the most problematic myths in Western culture (Europe and the Americas), arguably, is the origin story of man and woman: Adam and Eve. Whether or not one subscribes to a Christian denomination, ...