Summer 2026 Correspondence
Summer 2026 Correspondence Summer 2026 Correspondence Email Share Print Download What Sets the West Apart Spencer Klavan’s cover essay “The Renegade Academy” (Spring 2026) states eloquently much that I believe about the Western tradition—and the recent attacks upon it. I will certainly now read the book under review, Allen Guelzo and James Hankins’s The Golden Thread. But I didn’t see in Klavan, or in his summary of Guelzo and Hankins, a clear definition of the psychology involved—what separates the West from the non-West—a question I took up in my own Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power (2019).
- ▪Summer 2026 Correspondence Summer 2026 Correspondence Email Share Print Download What Sets the West Apart Spencer Klavan’s cover essay “The Renegade Academy” (Spring 2026) states eloquently much that I believe about the Western tradition—an
- ▪I will certainly now read the book under review, Allen Guelzo and James Hankins’s The Golden Thread.
- ▪But I didn’t see in Klavan, or in his summary of Guelzo and Hankins, a clear definition of the psychology involved—what separates the West from the non-West—a question I took up in my own Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 28 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Summer 2026 Correspondence Summer 2026 Correspondence Email Share Print Download What Sets the West Apart Spencer Klavan’s cover essay “The Renegade Academy” (Spring 2026) states eloquently much that I believe about the Western tradition—and the recent attacks upon it. I will certainly now read the book under review, Allen Guelzo and James Hankins’s The Golden Thread. But I didn’t see in Klavan, or in his summary of Guelzo and Hankins, a clear definition of the psychology involved—what separates the West from the non-West—a question I took up in my own Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power (2019). The difference has nothing to do with race per se.
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