Samuel Huntington’s Great Idea Was Totally Wrong His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and ...

Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Illuminates Conflicts — at Home and Abroad. Samuel Huntington’s insights, 30 years old this summer, offer renewed clarity as the American-led West faces new ...

Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That’s what a casual reader of “The Clash of Civilizations?” — published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer — might think.

Huntington is most famous for "The Clash of Civilizations," but his scholarly reputation properly rests on his earlier work. His analysis of political order had immediate, real-world applications.

Huntington’s model makes sense of an impressively high proportion of the news. When young Muslim men riot in protest against Danish cartoons, it looks like another case of clashing civilizations.

Denouncing multiculturalism as “anti-European civilization,” Huntington calls for a renewed nationalism devoted to preserving and enhancing “those qualities that have defined America since ...

IDEAS The real ‘clash of civilizations’ will happen at home Samuel Huntington envisioned enduring hostility between Islam and the West. But that thesis hasn’t come to pass — and it ...