Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.