The Return of Western Civilization
- patricklewisbaker
- Dec 26, 2025
- 1 min read
Prof. Hankins speaks with Freddie Sayers of Unherd about the precarious state of the Western tradition and the burgeoning resistance movement in classical education. Moving through a 2,500-year narrative arc from the ancient Greek invention of reason to the modern-day “cult of innovation,” he warns that elite institutions are suffering from a dangerous cultural amnesia. But, despite the degradation of the canon, he offers a defiant hope rooted in history, arguing that Western civilization has survived near-extinction before and remains ripe for a new Renaissance.