It became a stoic symbol of civilization, silhouetted against the West’s painted sky. “When you’re out on a 160,000-acre ranch they were very useful and the only way to get water to the ...

The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream among rulers and thinkers in Europe and North America. It sounds good, yet industrialization, the two world wars of the ...

The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. These ideas emerged during antiquity from societies located primarily in ...