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Explore the debate and science of Western Civilization.

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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November 14, 2018

Western Civilization

National Association of Scholars

A citizen's guide on the necessity of studying Western Civilization.

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October 5, 2018

Hannah Arendt, Between Future and Past

Edward R. Dougherty

Hannah Arendt envisioned the collapse of Western civilization. Are we living through it? How near to truth was her prediction?

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May 2, 2018

Western Civilization's Ticking Clock

Ashley Thorne

A new documentary, The Fight for Our Lives, details the ideological war against the West. 

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