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Why the West?('The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat')(Book Review)
Toleration is of all ideas the most modern.
--Walter Bagehot, 1872
In my eyes the west is a perpetual aggressor.
--Arnold, Toynbee, 1961
If one allows the infidels to continue playing their role of corrupters on Earth, their eventual moral punishment will be all the stronger. Thus, if we kill the infidels in order to put a stop to their [corrupting] activities, we have indeed done them a service. For their eventual punishment will be less.
--Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1984
Beauty contests are not usually occasions fraught with political significance. But the 2002 Miss World contest, scheduled to be held in Nigeria, ...
- University to replace Western civilization classes; Critics see end of...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 19, 2002 700+ words
...THE WASHINGTON TIMES A majority of Western civilization core classes at the University of...Greece and Rome. They argue that the Western civilization courses are a 60-year legacy at...university since the 1950s. "Taking the Western civilization classes away, there will be no...
- Yale to return $20m donation Yale to return $20m, rejects plan on courses in...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Anthony Flint, Globe Staff March 15, 1995 700+ words
...survey program in Western civilization. Eleven professors...resources into new Western civilization courses when the...and literature of Western civilization should be balanced...the evils of the West, particularly imperialist...
- Will Western civilization survive?(COLUMNIST)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Hunter, Ian May 1, 2006 700+ words
...question: "Can Western Civilization Be Saved?" Rather...am doubtful that Western civilization can be saved. First, what remains of Western civilization seems too demoralized...you know that the West no longer has the...
- Burke on democracy as the death of Western civilization *.
- Magazine article from: Polity O'Neill, Daniel I. January 1, 2004 700+ words
...upon Burke's understanding of Western civilization and, in particular, upon its fate...less than the wholesale collapse of Western civilization itself. Nor was this a conclusion...French Revolution spell the end of Western civilization for Burke? The answer I develop...
- The history of the library in Western civilization: a review essay.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record Gracy, David B., II September 22, 2007 700+ words
...History of the Library in Western Civilization, vol. 1, From Minos...History of the Library in Western Civilization, vol. 2, The Roman...History of the Library in Western Civilization, a library historian...
- Some blame liberal opposition for delaying course on Western civilization....
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Flint, Anthony November 21, 1994 700+ words
...used to improve the teaching of Western civilization. But three years later, the survey...interfered with the establishment of the Western civilization course. The article in the student...is not upset, and that the new Western civilization course will be designed and in place...
- Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Offord, Derek July 1, 2006 700+ words
...between Russia and the West, on which the volume...Russia' is a part of 'Western civilization' is to run the risk...Russia' and 'the West'. In seeking to identify...argue the merits of Western civilization' (p. 11), while...judgements about the 'West' (which is associated...
- RightSide Video Offers Free DVD to Military Personnel and Their Families;...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 19, 2006 700+ words
...popular titles--The Siege of Western Civilization--will be available free of charge...Development Group, Inc. "The Siege of Western Civilization has become an international bestseller...decided that making The Siege of Western Civilization available to them for free should...
Source: HighBeam Research, Why the West?('The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist...