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In the Ruins of Western Civilization | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review

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We can learn from the outdated Western Civ model, even as we transcend it.

When I first started teaching at Stanford, I would take the train down from San Francisco, getting off at the Palo Alto station. I walked the length of Palm Drive, watching the university rise up against the foothills. After passing the university's neoclassical museum building, I entered Memorial Court, where Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais stand in perpetual stillness. But I paused at a different place, by the plaque commemorating Robert Edouard Pellissier, an assistant professor of French, who had died in World War I. He was 34. There was a poignancy to this solitary plaque. Driving arou

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