Western civilization

In Submission, his most recent novel, the French writer-provocateur Michel Houellebecq imagines France after an Islamic takeover. The book, argues Amir Taheri, is as much. . .

Jan. 13 2015 12:01AM

Nazism, writes Daniel Johnson, is best understood as a movement to destroy Western civilization, a goal it shared with Soviet Communism. Too few Europeans understood. . .

Dec. 24 2014 12:01AM

In Culture and Anarchy, the preeminent Victorian intellectual Matthew Arnold famously wrote of the contest between those human endeavors that are noble, ennobling, and beautiful. . .

Nov. 25 2014 12:01AM

In Ukraine as in the Holy Land, civilization sits precariously on a field sodden in blood. Israel understands this. Does the White House? 

Mark Steyn
July 25 2014 12:01AM

Since the beginning, influential Western writers and thinkers have formed their theories of reality on the basis of defamatory ideas about Jewishness.   

March 7 2014 12:01AM

Scientists and philosophers of mind are tossing the human-centered worldview into the trash; it is incumbent on Judaism and Christianity to confront them.

Jan. 14 2014 12:00AM

In his last work, the political economist F. A. Hayek all but recognized the necessity of religion as the linchpin of Western civilization.

Dec. 20 2013 12:00AM

Attempting to defend the Enlightenment and Western civilization from postmodern attacks, a new history degenerates instead into a tiresome diatribe against religion.

Jeremy Jennings
Sept. 12 2013 12:00AM