In a recent critique of Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies that appeared in National Review, historian Ron Radosh makes numerous assertions about the book by M. Stanton Evans that are completely unsupported by the work itself.
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On Trustees We Dump
Only on college campuses does the middle class run the show, as tenured faculty lord it over students and trustees alike.
Peter Pan Nation
If it seems that America’s establishment figures have been getting increasingly immature as the years go by, you are not imagining things.
You Don’t Get What You Pay For in College
Recently, a history professor at a distinguished university commented during a TV interview that Americans should be more humble. After all, he said, more than 50,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War for no reason.
Foreign Investment and Iran’s Future
The NIE timeline proposed for Iran to create enough highly-enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb suspiciously parallels predictions of an Iranian economic collapse.
California’s Dropout Factories
“Dropout factories” are common in California, where more than one in 10 high schools fits the description.
It’s Still Children
The premiere of It’s Still Elementary, a retrospective documentary featuring the public’s response to the controversial 1996 It’s Elementary film on homosexual discussions in Elementary School classrooms, was hosted by the NEA.
U.S. Manufacturing Obituaries Premature
Instead of mischaracterizing the significance and meaning of the U.S. trade deficit, policymakers should try to attain a better understanding of the condition of U.S. manufacturing.
Ten Little Litigants
The Lakota East High School dramatic production of the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians—initially cancelled by school administrators after it was called racially insensitive by a local NAACP leader—is back on, but with changes that imply the play will be compromised by political correctness.
In the Camp of the Luddites
My recent visit to a conference in Randolph gave me a glimpse of the kinds of individuals and groups who make up a large part of Vermont’s environmental Left.