The three-quarter History of Western Civilization common core sequence, a nearly 60-year-old legacy in the College, will undergo significant changes this fall. In response to declining enrollment in ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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

During a panel discussion, Maher dismissed the idea that recent global tensions are simply political disagreements, instead framing them as deeper cultural divides. He argued that “it was a clash of ...

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 ...

Australia’s controversial Western civilization courses are proving popular with students despite bitter opposition from many staff, data suggest. The extended majors in Western civilization at the ...