Our schools and universities suffer from an enervating cultural cringe, condemning Western civilization as morally defective while teaching students to praise every culture but their own. Eminent historian Andrew Roberts issues a clarion call in the National Review to restore the teaching of Western achievements and values. Without the West, Roberts argues, the world would resort to a neo-Darwinian free-for-all.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


