Without America, ‘the West’ Will Splinter, Wither and Die. The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending, in Ukraine or anywhere. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that.

More generally, the term was a form of American exceptionalism that came to mean the inevitable east-to-west occupation of the North American continent, often expressed in messianic terms.

MR. JAMES TERRY has just published descriptions and photographs of some of the most remarkable works of prehistoric man yet discovered on the American continent. The title of his paper is ...