President Bush today launched “We the People,” an initiative by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to encourage the teaching, studying and understanding of American history and culture. “Studies have shown that Americans...
The impact of the terrorist attacks of last September 11 continues to reverberate across the United States, leaving few aspects of American life unexamined and unchanged. As one might expect, a subject to receive...
In 1968, SUNY Stony Brook students angry about the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and that the role of blacks in America was virtually ignored in the university’s classrooms, blocked classes...
Our report, “Defending Civilization,” documents academe’s disturbingly ambivalent response to the Sept. 11 attacks. You assert that we accuse professors of anti-American statements, unpatriotic behavior and disloyal acts—but these words are never used in...
Seven years ago, as Newt Gingrich and his gang rushed headlong into what soon proved to be a hilariously short-lived “revolution,” yours truly begged to differ. In this space I argued that “conservatism” in...
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