Walter McDougall’s book reviewed in Crisis Magazine

A new book from a new publisher swims against the anti-Western tide of our academic elites.

When I attended college in the early 1990’s, the state school I attended required every student to take two semesters of “Western Civilization.” This had been a requirement for generations of students, founded on the belief that a comprehensive education must include an understanding—and appreciation—of the enormous contributions of European culture to the world. However, during my four years in attendance I noticed a shift away from this emphasis and toward a more “multicultural” outlook. Soon after I graduated, the university dropped the Western Civ requirement. The idea that one must understand the Greek, Roman, and Israelite foundations of our culture was seen as passé; what really mattered now was praising every other culture on earth.

But the anti-Western Culture forces weren’t content with ignoring our cultural foundations; soon they began to attack it with vigor. So much so that it’s now considered offensive in many quarters to say anything positive about Western Civilization or the history of Europe. Our elites in education and media insist that our history is one of oppression, racism, and evil, and they’ve long been engaged in a propaganda campaign to brainwash our youth to embrace this outlook.

This is the environment in which newly-founded publisher Creed & Culture decided to release its first book, The Mighty Continent by Walter A. McDougall, a Professor of International Relations and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. 

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