Harvard's war on White Man, Liberty, and Western Civilization betrays our heritage and future
By ljdevon // 2026-01-05
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A culture, a people cannot exist if they forget where they come from, lose their meaning, and have no purpose or aim as to where they are going. By losing pride in your heritage, you lose meaning and identity, and you become subject-able as a person and exploitable on a mental level. Harvard's education policies today look at Western civilization as flawed and inherently evil. The halls of what was once America’s most prestigious university are now riddled with limp-wristed educators who espouse white guilt and denigrate the courageous efforts of our ancestors who fought through much tougher conditions for liberty and to establish the very institutions that we now take for granted. Harvard, an institution founded by the brave pioneers of Western civilization to cultivate clergy and leaders, has turned its back on the very roots that nourished its growth. Instead of honoring the legacy of its ancestors—the thinkers, builders, and warriors who carved order from chaos and bequeathed a world of liberty, reason, and unparalleled achievement—it has embraced a new dogma of guilt and meaninglessness. This new age creed seeks not to build upon the past, but to dismantle it, not to honor merit, but to punish it based on the color of one’s skin. The recent departure of a veteran professor lays bare a shocking truth: Harvard has launched a forever war on white men and the civilizational virtues they represent, sacrificing truth and talent at the altar of a divisive and destructive ideology. This is more than an academic scandal; it is a deliberate act of cultural suicide that threatens the foundations of a free and prosperous society. Key points:
  • A 40-year Harvard history professor, James Hankins, has resigned, citing the university's explicit discrimination against white male applicants and its abandonment of teaching Western civilization.
  • Professor Hankins provides specific instances where extraordinarily qualified white male students were rejected from graduate programs based on an unofficial racial quota system.
  • Harvard's history department has not hired a tenured historian in a Western field for a decade, actively replacing Western history with a revisionist "global history" that inverts historical truth.
  • This ideological shift is framed as "de-centering the West" but functions as a denial of the civilizational foundations that made institutions like Harvard possible.
  • The situation follows the pattern set by the Claudine Gay presidency, where DEI objectives appeared to supersede academic integrity and rigorous vetting.
  • The deliberate failure to teach the achievements and lessons of Western civilization harms the socialization of young Americans, risking a return to societal darkness.

The explicit exclusion and the death of merit

The testimony from within is damning. James Hankins, after four decades of service, did not leave Harvard quietly. He sounded an alarm. In a stark essay, he described a university that has collectively knelt to a new political orthodoxy, one where merit is a secondary consideration to identity. He recounts reviewing a graduate applicant in 2020 who was an outstanding, perfect fit for the program. In any sane academic year, such a candidate would have been celebrated. Instead, Hankins was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that admitting "that" – a white male – was "not happening this year." The message was not subtle. It was a directive. The injustice becomes even more personal and poignant. Hankins mentions a certifiably brilliant undergraduate, the winner of the prize for the best overall academic record in his graduating class. This young man, a white male, was rejected from every graduate program to which he applied. When Hankins called colleagues across the country, he discovered the same unspoken protocol was in effect everywhere. The gates were closed, not due to a lack of brilliance or dedication, but because of an immutable characteristic. This is not equity; it is the very definition of systemic racism, now institutionalized under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It echoes the controversial tenure of former president Claudine Gay, whose documented plagiarism was overlooked by a system seemingly more desperate to check a demographic box than to uphold scholarly excellence. The question hangs in the air, heavy with implication: how does someone commit academic plagiarism on multiple occasions and ascend to the pinnacle of American academia? The answer, it appears, lies in an ideology that values representation over rigor.

Erasing our roots: The planned obsolescence of Western civilization

The discrimination, however, is only one symptom of a deeper sickness. Harvard is not just filtering out individuals based on the content of their ideas and the color of their skin; it is actively erasing the intellectual and historical context that created it. Hankins reveals that his own history department has not hired a single tenured historian in a Western field—ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern—in an entire decade. In that time, eight senior historians in these fields have left, and Hankins will be the ninth. He does not expect to be replaced. Their replacement is what is marketed as "global history," a framework Hankins exposes as an "absurdist rendering of world history." In this new narrative, designed to "de-center the West," the drivers of cultural innovation are recast. Central Asian peoples, for instance, are presented as the primary benign influencers along the Silk Road, while Western nations are relegated to an "ugly growth on the back side of Eurasia." This is a total inversion of reality. It ignores the brutal nature of empires like the Mongols, whose specialty was destruction, and diminishes the Romans, who despite imperfections, built lasting infrastructure and spread civilizing principles. To teach that the West has contributed nothing but oppression is to tell a lie so profound it severs students from truth itself. As Hankins warns with chilling simplicity, "When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized." History is humanity's collective memory, a record of social experiments showing what elevates societies and what destroys them. To corrupt that record is to condemn future generations to repeat the worst failures of the past, all while believing they are pioneers of justice.

Why this cultural betrayal matters to every American

This matters far beyond the ivy-covered walls of Cambridge. Harvard is a signal institution. What it does, lesser schools aspire to copy. The poison injected here will seep into the bloodstream of the nation's elite, the future leaders in law, government, and media. If they are taught to despise their own civilizational inheritance, to view the heroes of their history as villains, and to believe that achievement must be subordinated to identity, they will lead not from a place of strength and gratitude, but from guilt and confusion. They will not build upon the monumental achievements of Western science, philosophy, and law—the very tools that unlocked human potential and conquered ancient evils of disease, tyranny, and ignorance. Instead, they will apologize for them. The brave actions of our ancestors—the defiance of tyranny at Runnymede, the intellectual courage of the Enlightenment, the relentless pursuit of discovery—were not acts of oppression. They were acts of liberation that ultimately benefited all mankind. To lose pride in this heritage is to become a subject, exploited, and weak. It makes a people vulnerable to the very forces of chaos and authoritarianism that our forebears fought to hold back. Harvard’s current path is a road to cultural darkness, a willing amnesia that abandons the lamp of wisdom for the fog of ideology. The war on white men is merely the most visible front in this larger conflict; the ultimate casualty is truth, and without truth, liberty cannot survive. Sources include: TheNewAmerican.com TheNewAmerican.com Enoch, Brighteon.ai
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