The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization is a forum for civic debate and scholarly research that enlivens the intellectual discourse among students and faculty by promoting a set of ideals that have their origins in Western civilization, but are universal in scope and appeal.
First and foremost for the Center of Freedom and Western Civilization is the ideal of a classical liberal arts education: an education worthy of a free citizen and a free mind that is based on a rigorous and unflinching encounter with the great books of the Western tradition. We believe that these books contain timeless wisdom about the good life and the nature of man and reality, and they should be at the core of a liberal arts education. Second, we believe in the ideals of free speech, free enterprise, and constitutional democracy, especially as they have been understood and established by America’s founding fathers.