"The Lost History of Western Civilization" is a wide-ranging consideration of the academy's role in producing America's contemporary political and cultural divisions. The report traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for today's "Cold Civil War." The report is also an extended case-study in the follies and limitations of deconstructionist, multiculturalist, postmodern, and intersectional thinking. The report refutes a landmark scholarly "deconstruction" of Western Civilization, throwing new light on American history and exposing the incoherence of academic postmodernism in the process.