In Defense of the West
By KATHARINE SAVAGE Where I live, mention the Great Books or the Western tradition, and you are...
Tag: Western
Powerful and Dangerous: Men Are Not Angels
Men are not Angels Thomas Hobbes, describing a condition without government called the “state of...
Kings Who are Subjects and Subjects Who are Kings
In the year 410 AD, a new “order” for governing nations emerged, not from a king, but from a...
Bach to Thankfulness: Why We Study the West’s Greatest Music
By JARROD RICHEY The year was 1824 when then 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn was given by his...
Luther’s Transformation of Western Civilization
“EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN FAITH, AND HE MUST SEE TO IT FOR HIMSELF THAT HE...
The Formation of the First “University”
By ANTHONY M. ESOLEN The first time I visited the Sistine Chapel, I didn’t know much about...
Christ, the Crux of Human History
By DR. BRIAN A. WILLIAMS “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? … For Jews demand...
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD—A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA LOST
By LOUIS MARKOS Plato’s Idea of Standards “Behold,” wrote the ancient Greek philosopher...
First University
Google the question, “What is the oldest university,” and a small but emphatic contingent will...
Transcendent: The Not-So-Obvious Idea About God
By DOUGLAS WILSON If you are willing to indulge me for a moment, picture two different whales. One...
Further
The ideas of the West are central to much of the way we live and perceive the world. The Summer...
WEST vs. EAST LIVE FROM LONDON WITH TOM VELASCO
London embodies the ancient and the modern in its skyline from St. Paul’s Cathedral to the new...
