Huntington was a shy political scientist who began teaching at Harvard in 1949. A quintessential WASP, he’d registered as a Democrat the year earlier at the age of 21, met his wife while writing ...

SCOTLAND, Conn. ---- Americans on Monday will celebrate Presidents Day, which is something of a sore spot in this tiny town of 1,500 in eastern Connecticut. That's because in the center of town, a ...

In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come. By Francis ...

Some things evolve full circle and it may take years, centuries, or generations to happen. It has taken 20 years from the purchase of Samuel Huntington’s birthplace to the opening of the home as a ...

This episode of the Bradley Lecture Series podcast features Professor Samuel Huntington on his famous essay, “The Clash of Civilizations.” In this lecture, given at AEI one year before the essay’s ...

Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and revision. For hundreds of years, the map of the ...

The late Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” paradigm has been taking a beating lately. His critics have warned that such a worldview portends a millenarian war between the West and Islam.

I was a teenager when I first read Samuel Huntington’s 1993 article The Clash of Civilizations? It impressed me very much. Huntington pictured cultural or “civilizational” identity as the main source ...

A poem honoring Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, will debut July 5 at the Huntington Homestead Museum, according to a community announcement. “American Mettle,” written ...

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Two columnists sit down to discuss two books that crystallize this period in America. By Carlos Lozada, Pamela Paul and Vishakha Darbha In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian ...