Yahoo

If the coronavirus pandemic marks the collapse of civilization, would we know? Experts weigh in.

For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and streamline the narrative. Understanding contemporary motivations requires a ...

Classical wisdom lights the way for contemporary cooperation

The Second World Conference of Classics, themed "Dialogue Between Ancient and Modern: Contemporary Inspirations from ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

Lit Hum, Contemporary Civilization to be required for some incoming GS students next fall

Starting fall 2020, students entering the School of General Studies with under 30 credits will be required to take Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization if they have not already ...
The Heritage Foundation

Maybe "Civilizations" Aren’t the Problem

Maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe civilizations aren’t the problem, as Samuel Huntington warned, but the answer. If so, we should be worried less about them clashing, and start thinking more about how ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

A Location of Possibility and the Practice of Freedom: How a Decolonial Contemporary Civilization Section is Transforming Columbia’s Classroom Culture

Generations of Columbia College students have been introduced to the philosophy that shaped the Western world through the Core Curriculum course Contemporary Civilization. In the spring of 2021, I ...