The genius of the West is that it has discovered how to give concrete expression to liberty through the institutions of religion, property, family, and neighborhood. In great part, the assault on the Western heritage is carried out by zealots whose goal is to undermine those pillars that express and support our liberty. Roger Scruton, along with the distinguished essayists whom he has recruited for this volume, has now deprived every intelligent person of any excuse for not knowing what is at stake in the debates over Western Civilization and what will be lost if those critics are allowed to have their way.---James Piereson Author of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution<BR><BR>An essential volume of essays commissioned by The American Spectator and edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization examines the intellectual and spiritual traditions of our belief in individual liberty, from the Judaco-Christian origins through Enlightenment philosophy. As we are confronted by militant atheism at home and jihadist Islam abroad, Liberty and Civilization is an invaluable tool for understanding why it is critical that we defend the cultural, religious, and intellectual institutions that have made our civilization great. The essayists include Brian C. Anderson, Anne Applebaum, Robert Bork, Remi Brague, Robert P. George, Seamus Hasson, Paul Johnson, Jeremy Rabkin, Roger Scruton, and Christina Sommers.