Roots of the ‘Civilizational Crisis’ Facing the West—Dr Stephen Blackwood | American Thought Leaders [20210413]

<p>“This view that there is no truth, but only power has emanated through and infected...our whole cultural and institutional life,” says Dr. Stephen Blackwood, President of Ralston College. </p> <p> “We are facing civic alienation, inner-city violence, the devastation of our inherited intellectual and spiritual culture” are evidence of the sickness ailing Western civilization, in Blackwood’s view. </p> <p> “The only antidote to the widespread nihilism is to recover, to re-apprehend the realities that nihilism denies—truth, beauty, goodness, forgiveness.” Blackwood has recently launched Ralston College, a new institution of higher education committed to free speech and open discourse.</p> <p><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/highereducation" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#HigherEducation</a>​ <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/stephenblackwood" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#StephenBlackwood</a>​ <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/freespeech" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#FreeSpeech</a>​ </p>