Nothing to Apologize For: The Truth About Western Civilization

Western Civilization transformed the world through reason freedom progress individualism ingenuity and the great experiment known as America. America is not all good but were losing what is good because were afraid to claim it. As though somehow its shameful to honor such an imperfect country. But the beauty of America is that were founded on perfect ideals. And as short of those ideals as we sometimes fall we never stop striving to attain them. Thats what we need to honor. Thats what we dont want to lose.Yes we had slavery Jim Crow and segregation. We also had the Civil Rights Movement possible only in Western culture because we value critical self-reflection and progress.Yes we had rapacious capitalism Robber Barons and child labor. We also have capitalism that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system ever invented.Yes we had legal racism sexism and homophobia. We also have human rights that once attained are never lost unlike non-Western cultures where human rights--if they exist--are always fragile.In Nothing to Apologize For: The Truth About Western Civilization Donna Carol Voss makes the case for Western civilization and especially for America its pearl of great price. It is a clear-eyed love letter that gives us a chance to ask ARE WE REALLY READY TO LOSE WHAT WE HAVE LEFT OF WESTERN CULTURE?DO WE REALLY REALIZE WHAT THAT WILL MEAN?Its not too late. Yet.