The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion.

There may even be something about the modern West that lends itself to such radical shifts of attitude.

Our guide makes sure we know he is very depressed over what the modern West has "done to, not for the earth and the others."

It would be difficult to imagine an attitude more at odds with the thrusting, iconoclastic spirit of the modern West.

It was an important moment, marking the beginning of science as we know it in the modern West.

They could understand Khomeini but not the modern West.

Because our optimism about human nature and its commitment to the rule of law, not just power, is the engine of the modern West.

But with the cultural revolution of the 1960s the age of mobilization came to an end, at least in the modern West.

Very few people in the modern West can say such a thing.

The standoff here between farmers and environmentalists was familiar in the modern West.