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Explore the debate and science of Western Civilization.

February 20, 2024

“The Evil West and the Innocent Rest”

Kali Jerrard

Utah’s recent legislation aims to reverse the anti-Western sentiment in higher education.

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February 14, 2024

Utah's Senate Bill 226 Restores Western Civ Education

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance enthusiastically endorse Utah Senate Bill 226, the School of General Education Act. If Utah passes SB 226 into law, it will become a l......

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February 2, 2024

Tribalism or Individualism?

Teresa R. Manning

The most immediate work of conservatives must be the rejection of tribalism and a refocus on the individual—individual character, industry, and aptitude.

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November 16, 2023

The General Education Act

Stanley Kurtz, David Randall and Jenna Robinson

This new model state legislation seeks to reform the way general education requirements function, refocusing these required credits on reviving and sustaining classical liberal education on campus.

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October 31, 2023

Turning Our Universities Against Barbarism

David Randall

Our universities pose a terrible challenge to America. It is time to teach Western civilization because to convey that civilization is to teach our children not to embrace barbarism. It is to tea......

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November 8, 2021

Event: Liberalism and the Role of Virtue in Civic Education

National Association of Scholars

Join NAS in Boulder, Colorado on November 17th at 3 pm MT for an event exploring the role of liberalism and Western civilization in civics education.

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April 24, 2020

Toward a Renewed Study of Western Civilization

David Acevedo

A review of NAS's recent report, The Lost History of Western Civilization, by acclaimed historian Robert Paquette.

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March 16, 2020

Rediscovering Western Civilization

Peter Berkowitz

The rediscovery of the West is a civilizational imperative. 

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January 28, 2020

NAS Releases New Report: The Lost History of Western Civilization

David Acevedo

Written by Stanley Kurtz, The Lost History of Western Civilization traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for t......

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January 28, 2020

Western Civ is Here to Stay

David Randall

In his latest op-ed for RealClearEducation, NAS Research Director David Randall introduces Stanley Kurtz's new report The Lost History of Western Civilization, highlighting the necessity and......

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