But the war to defend it is just heating up.
From the Pen of David Horowitz: January 15, 2010
January 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An Open Letter to the USC Community: Response to VP Student Affairs Michael L. Jackson:
Vice President Jackson’s “Open Letter to the USC Community” denigrating student leaders of College Republicans for inviting me to speak is ill-informed and provides unfortunate support for campus hate speech, specifically for the attacks on Jewish students that have become increasingly [...]
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Censorship and Libel at USC
January 14, 2010 By 44 Comments
A university shows tolerance for Muslim student radicals – but not for their critics.
The Bipartisan Shame of Racism
January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I am a white woman (technically, translucent without a tan, but, that’s a personal problem). There has never been a time when I’ve felt the sting of judgment over something so irrevocable as my skin color. Not once have I sensed that someone was uncomfortable with my racial identity, even in ethnically diverse situations. I [...]
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Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work – NYTimes.com
January 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis at Colby College in Maine. Her question was a timely one: How do the world’s three major faith traditions apply economic principles? [...]
Candace de Russy: Hate-America Sociology – Minding The Campus
January 7, 2010 By 3 Comments
Recently, a colleague forwarded to me a copy of an exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at a public college in the east. It was graded 100%. The exam deserves to be quoted at length, as parts of it are virtually indistinguishable from the old Soviet agitprop of the Fifties: [...]
Jon Rowe Gives Insight on the Founders in Grabar vs Swindle Marijuana Debate
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My friend Jon Rowe, a libertarian blogger and college professor, has written a thoughtful post responding to my debate with Mary Grabar on marijuana legalization, conservatism, and the counterculture.
Over the years I’ve found Jon’s blogging on the founding to be tremendously erudite and engaging. If you haven’t been following his writing then you really should.
Here’s [...]
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Bomb suspect came from elite family, best schools – AP
December 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London. But the education he wanted was of a different sort: Nigerian officials say his interest in extremist Islam prompted his father to warn U.S. authorities. [...]
Kevin Jennings, “Safe Schools Czar”
December 21, 2009 By 3 Comments
To view the full Kevin Jennings profile, click here. Excerpts from the Kevin Jennings profile: A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kevin Jennings was raised by a father who was a Baptist minister, and a mother who was irreligious and anti-Catholic. After graduating from Harvard College in 1985, Jennings took a job as a high-school history teacher. Three years later [...]
Politicization of Middle Eastern Studies – by Brendan Goldman
December 18, 2009 By 15 Comments
On blatant display at Columbia U. Iran conference
