Category: civilisation

PREMIERING June 27, 3 PM ET (8 PM UK): Marc Sidwell: ‘The West is a Great Adventure in Human History and Should be Celebrated’ | British Thought Leaders

June 24, 2023
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NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Marc Sidwell, film-maker, journalist and Director of Research at The Henry Jackson Society. Marc talks about a series of documentaries he made for the New Culture Forum covering the history, achievements and genius of Western civilisation. Marc says the West is something that should be celebrated, and that despite…

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Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’: Still Important, Still Relevant

December 27, 2022
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The year 1969 is one to remember in the history of American television. “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” premiered that year, and its madcap antics transformed TV comedy. Other beloved series still remembered today, like “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” entranced audiences as well. In January of that year, in what is…

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3, 2, 1 … Timber! A Philosopher’s Take on the Collapse of Our Civilization

September 20, 2022
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Commentary The clock seems to be ticking. Growing disparities in wealth, a housing and gas crisis, transhumanism galloping over the horizon, heroized incivility, and the constant threat of viruses, the “cures” for which may be worse than the diseases. Global politics feels eerily apocalyptic these days and, in our own little worlds, many of us…

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