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Russia wants “regime change” in Georgia, says US.
Steve LeVine puts this conflict into context — it is all part of the ongoing ‘pipeline wars’.
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Manas is on a blog hiatus, but don’t miss this older post about why he feels the “West vs Islam” is a false dichotomy.
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The West in Bollywood: When a female character is to be portrayed as ‘Western’ or ‘Westernised’ in a Bollywood, her hemline receds drastically.
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Moral issues divide Westerners from Muslims in the West.
(Does this mean Muslims in the West are not Westerners?)
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The years 1950 to 2000 will go down in history as the Golden Age of The West.
(Of course, people in in the far future may not be as fascinated with history and historiography as we are today.)
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“Western civ”: an American war baby
In both its remote and immediate origins, “Western civ” was a war baby. The first such course was instituted at Columbia immediately after World War I, as a continuation of the “war issues” course offered during hostilities. It defined the traditions of the West as those for which the Allies had fought against the Hun. The course had few imitators between the wars, but after World War II it became the most widely taught history course on American campuses. Courses of this type were strongly urged by the influential report of Havard’s General Education Committee in 1945, whose principal concerns, according to a sympathetic commentator, were “‘why we fight’, the principles of a free society, the need to provide a consistent image of the American experience, the definition of democracy in a world of totalitarianism, the efforts to fortify the heritage of Western civilization, and the need to provide a ‘common learning’ for all Americans as a foundation of national unity.
- Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession
