Primary Sources for Epilogue
Why Western Civilization?
Articles on the Western Civ controversy at Stanford
Bernstein, Richard. "In Dispute on Bias, Stanford Is Likely To Alter Western Culture Program." The New York Times. 19 January 1988.
Gordon, Larry. "Stanford Debates Its View of Western Culture." Los Angeles Times. 3 February 1988.
Grossman, Ron. The Chicago Tribune. "Will Stanford Alter The Course of Western Civilization?" 19 March 1989:A contemporary newspaper story (linked over several pages, also with text broken up by ads).
The Stanford Review, "The Case for a Western Civilization Requirement at Stanford." The Stanford Review. 2016? With "Concerns & Replies."
Hamilton, Andrea M. "IHUM at six years reports unique 'successful curriculum'" Stanford Report. 23 April 2003. A story from several years into the a different curriculum.
Lindenberger, Herbert. "On the Sacrality of Reading Lists: The Western Culture Debate at Stanford University" 1990. Viewpoint of a professor who participated in changing the curriculum.
Reider, Jon. Letter: "Jesse Jackson Didn't Lead Chant Against Western Culture. The Chronicle of Higher Education." 21 November 2016. “No, we don’t want to get rid of Western Culture. We want to expand it and bring in new voices.”
"Stanford Western Civilization Curriculum Debate. 1988/1989. Ronald Reagan Web. Bibliography of contemporary articles about Stanford and Western Civ.
More recent controversy about Western Civilization at Stanford and in general
National Association of Scholars. "The Disappearance of Western Civilization from the American Undergraduate Curriculum". May 2011.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Myth of Western Civilization." The Atlantic. 31 December 2013
Lai, Justin. "The Death of Stanford's Humanities Core." The Stanford Review. 2015.
Stark, Rodney. "How the West Won — but "Western Civ" Lost." The Intercollegiate Review (Spring 2014). Available at the Catholic Education Resource Center.
Wilson, John K. "The Myth of Political Correctness 20 Years Later." Academe Magazine. 3 February 2015. Here is a link to a chapter in his book: The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education.
Fangzhou, Liu and Jacob Nierenberg. "Stanford Review's Western Civilization proposal draws sharp reactions." The Stanford Daily. 26 February 2016; Nierenberg, Jacob. "Stanford Review lands Western Civilization proposal on ballot." The Stanford Daily. 1 April 2016. [Proposal failed].
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "There is no such thing as western civilisation." The Guardian. 9 November 2016. The Reith Lecture version and its transcript. And a reaction: Sonia Sodha. "Is there such a thing as Western Culture?"
Andrade, Gabriel. "Hey Hey, Ho Ho: Does Western Civ Have to Go"? Prindle Post (Wayback Machine). 26 January 26. 2017.
Brooks, David. "The Crisis of Western Civ." The New York Times. 21 April 2017. [Comments by readers are useful]
Barry, Dr Glen. "Never Forget "Western Civilization" Based upon Murderous Ecocidal Evil (Wayback Machine). 21 July 2017.
Wolfe, Sam and Amy Shen, "Civilizing Stanford Students: A Review of Stanford's Humanities Core." The Stanford Review. Dec. 2017.
Blouin, Katherine. "Civilization What's up with that? Everyday Orientalism. Feb. 23, 2018.
Maximus Planudes. "Civilization and Culture: Examples and Discussions." Medium.com March 18, 2019.
Walden, Daniel. "Dismantling the 'West.'" Current Affairs. June 28, 2018.
Contrapoints. "The West." Video essay. July 13, 2018.
Kersthead, James. "Is Western Civilization a Thing?" Quillette. Jan. 11, 2019.
Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "On the History of 'Western Civiliztion', Part 1." Classics at the Intersections. Apr. 3, 2019.
