Sep 6, 2020 · What explains its extraordinary intellectual, technological, and political progress over the past five centuries? And how did its rise engender the peculiarity of the Western character?

Feb 8, 2019 · For centuries the West has believed in its God-given right – if not duty – to conquer territories on every continent and subjugate the local people to the will and rule of the colonial masters,...

Nov 25, 2011 · I think it's not arrogance to think you're special when you've proven that prior to now you have been. The point is not sit on our laurels and live off the works of those that came before us, and to make our own positive mark on the world.

Mar 19, 2014 · This consensus about Islam, the bitter fruit of 14 centuries of aggression and listening to what Islamic doctrine clearly says, today arrogant Westerners dismiss as the fruit of racism, intolerance, and imperialism.

Nov 24, 2017 · For four hundred years the ambitious Western whites, seeking wealth and power, have taken and held what they wanted from India to Kamchatka. Every land was put completely under the sway of foreign imperialism, or was forced to grant ports, freedom from restrictive tariffs, extra-territoriality.

Mar 23, 2017 · Five years ago, this is how Michael Ignatieff described Russia and China’s message to the West, a message issued in the way they dealt with the Syrian Civil War in the UN Security Council.

Aug 14, 2018 · Martin’s correspondence reveals how western collectors viewed and imagined the U.S. East, suggesting an East of the imagination as rich in potential for study as the imagined West. The autumn of 1916 found Harvard history graduate student Thomas P. Martin at …

Nov 1, 2022 · Culture and conflict have been entangled for the whole of recorded history: Polybius warned fellow Ancient Greeks that armies should avoid damaging religious sites unnecessarily.

Mar 28, 2024 · Stefan Weidner gets candid on Western arrogance. Israel, much like the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, refuses to acknowledge that Hamas defeated it on 7 October.

Feb 19, 2021 · 2020 was hopefully the final nail in the coffin for Western arrogance – an intellectual edifice that has plagued the West for so long. The notion that we can live and make decisions based on the a priori assertion that the West knows best needs to be dismantled. The pandemic exposed this imperative.