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...that you think can share an affinity—but yet you see conflict,” Gay says. Though Gay moved into her office last fall, she hasn’t yet taught. Next semester she plans to lecture on democratic citizenship, lead a junior seminar on post-Civil War black politics, teach a graduate course on political behavior, and help graduate students research for their dissertations.None of this is new for her. While teaching at Stanford, Gay advised many students. “I think she was unique because many of the students she advised won the best...
Conservatism, as Russell Kirk defined it, is “negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.” With antics that emphasize shock value over substance and mindless partisanship over thoughtful consideration, these CRs reject the fundamental tenets of civil conservative thought...
...those who fought the battles while the women stayed at home. Incidentally, he was also a main advocate behind the movement to reopen the slave trade, and was involved in breaking up the Democratic party on the eve of the Civil...
...much for blacks, but as an observant Jew, he devoted much of his energies to the creation of Israel.” This flies in the face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale” for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce and the armed services. Niles is just one more victim of Perret’s scattershot storytelling...
...come to resemble the G.O.P.'s, notably when he said Democratic opposition to Bush's troop surge would "discourage our troops, hearten our enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California liberal Barbara Boxer. His staff claims he votes with Democrats more than 90% of the time, if Iraq is removed from the calculation...