God in American Literary History: Changing Perspectives‪.‬

God in American Literary History: Changing Perspectives In 1993 the eminent Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington published an article in the journal Foreign Affairs titled "The Clash of Civilizations." Viewing contemporary international relations from a geopolitical perspective, he predicted a clash of the world's major civilizations: the West, the Islamic world, and the Confucian East. He subsequently elaborated this widely-noted thesis in his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Among the responses to Huntington's thesis was James Kurth's article in the September 1994 issue of National Interest titled "The Real Clash." Kurth, one of Huntington's most brilliant students argued persuasively that more fundamental than the clash between world civilizations is the clash within the West itself between those who espouse the Judeo-Christian worldview and those who have abandoned it in favor of the "isms" of contemporary American life postmodernism, feminism, multiculturalism, and others, which Princeton law professor Robert P. George has lumped together as "the secularist orthodoxy." (1) As the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb describes the situation, "We have become two nations separated by a profound cultural and moral divide." (2)