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What do Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, William Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all have in common?

Videos of Afghans climbing walls and standing on active airport runways in the capital city of Kabul have fueled the ongoing debate about the Biden administration’s rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan. There have been unconfirmed reports of several Afghans dying amid the chaos, women and children beaten in the streets by Taliban fighters, beheading of Afghan […]

On his birthday, and, for that matter, most days, it is useful to remind ourselves what Ronald Reagan accomplished as president.

Each of the following states produced one president apiece and you might be surprised at the chief executives that go with each of them—Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey and New Hampshire. They are: Ronald Reagan, born in Tampico, Illinois Abraham Lincoln, born in Hodgenville, Kentucky Gerald Ford, born in Omaha, Nebraska Grover Cleveland, born in […]

Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics can’t hide their biases. “While it is certainly true that the public has a decidedly negative view on ‘the way things are going in the country today,’ (to borrow the wording of a recent poll by the Pew Research Center), it is less well known that […]

Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent historian Steve Hayward reminds us, is preside. Thus, we looked at the economies and foreign policies that these leaders presided […]

Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era,  particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so. “And though Barack Obama won two terms, he was the first president in history to be reelected with fewer popular and Electoral College votes than he received in […]

Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era,  particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so.

Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.

As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia.

The war on Christmas has been waged for a number of years.

The secularization of Christmas is nothing new. Christianity Today in 2002 reported that in the Vietnamese province of Dak Lak, children’s choirs were forbidden to sing “Silent Night.” From 1969 to 1997, Christmas was banned in Cuba