CIVILISATION
March 2016
'What makes the West unique are not recent phenomena, such as modern technology, but cultural factors which had been at work long before modernisation began some two centuries ago'
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June 2014
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark's seminal series has a tough act to follow
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January/February 2013
'Under the dictatorship of relativism, culture has often been debased to mean almost anything'
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January/February 2012
'It is true that certain faiths, ideologies and cultures make submission the supreme virtue, while the civilisation that emerged from Athens, Rome and Jerusalem has cherished liberty in all its forms'
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