Source: Washington Monthly
by Alex Bronzini-Vender
“In the December 29 New York Post, Daniel McCarthy, the conservative columnist, declared that ‘at Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.’ David Wolpe, a former visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, posted that ‘Harvard has no one left who teaches Western Civilization.’ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for his part, posted that ‘the study of western civilization’ has ‘completely cratered’ at institutions like Harvard. That’s news to me. Just last month, I was torn between enrolling in What is Global European History? or Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome. And this past fall, the department’s offerings included The Fall of the Roman Empire, Germany, 1848–1949, Early Modern Europe, Travelers in the Byzantine World, and Amsterdam: Portrait of an Early Modern Metropolis.” (01/06/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/06/harvard-western-civilization-humanities-decline/