Rubio’s Call to Defend Western Civilization Comes at a Pivotal Moment

How 'America First' became a civilizational doctrine

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent Athens speech should be read not simply as another assertion of American power, but as evidence of a larger transformation. In less tha...

Rubio’s Call to Defend Western Civilization Comes at a Pivotal Moment

Few stories in all of history are greater than the story of Western civilization. It began in the city-states of ancient Greece, where democracy, philosophy, and scientific inquiry first flourished. Those ideas matured in Rome, spread across Europe, and helped give birth to the United States 250 years ago. Our Founding Fathers understood that inheritance. They studied Greek history and the writings of Plato and Aristotle, drawing on debates abou…

Senior DA strategist should be dismissed for attacking the US and Western civilization

While relations between South Africa and the United States (US) are balanced on a knife-edge, the DA’s chief strategist, Ryan Coetzee, fanned the flames of the ANC’s anti-American sentiments by sharply criticising the US and Western values in general. In response to an important speech by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on 7 […]