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Indeed, many scholars who have known Faust in a professional context praised her scholarship and intellectual engagement with work. John C. Inscoe, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association (where Faust once served as president), says that Faust has “more than proven herself as a scholar and historian.” Inscoe also commented on Faust’s deft leadership of the Radcliffe Institute, where the intellectual and creative environment that Faust fosters keeps visiting scholars happy. “They all come back singing...
...championed for his personal achievements and not used as a spokesperson chosen to represent the struggle of all blacks in all of history. Granted, I think most would agree that a win from Obama late next year would have slightly more lasting reverberations for us all, but in the context of their individual relationships to the future history of race, the parallel exists...
...that we teach our students enough economics to read the business page, enough science to read the Science Times, and enough sense of irony to be able to get the jokes in the New Yorker. But when we do this we must be sure to keep it in the context of the overall purpose of a general education: to give students the tools for thinking seriously about what they should aspire to in attempting to live the best life possible for them. If we do this we will retain the traditional—and I believe admirable—idea...
...confront.” There are various interpretations of this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place in the context of a broad inquiry about how we ought to live. This idea, I believe, is entirely laudable as a premise for reform...
...analyst and an explosives expert) were at pains to distance themselves from what one called the "tremendous hype" in Washington - an apparent reference to recent U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in Iraq, which some fear might be a prelude to aggressive action against Tehran. The briefing occurred in the context of increased American pressure on the Iranian government. And the Bush Administration has claimed that the strife in Iraq since the summer of 2003 can be laid largely at the feet of foreign actors - from Arab jihadists to the Syrian regime to the Iranians. But the briefers said their concern...