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...elites in order to frighten liberals away from drifting towards populism. In reality, rural America has been the site of some of the nation’s most radical political movements. Eugene Debs, the prominent socialist of the turn of the century, was a proud resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century’s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor Texan. Rural Americans, just like their urban counterparts, are a complex group, full of competing opinions on politics, culture, and religion, yet we continue to treat them as one-dimensional pawns...
Dick Cheney's monosyllabic response of "So?" when he was asked about the two-thirds of Americans who oppose the Iraq war suggests he is more committed to forcing democracy on Iraq than to practicing it in this country [April 7]. Roy Hartzler, NEW PARIS, IND...
...loyal Fox news viewer because it is the only station that offers two viewpoints [April 7]. That's more than I can say about any other news network. Cheryl Conroy, LEESBURG, IND...
Harvard administrator Brian W. Casey will be the next president of DePauw University the institution announced yesterday. Casey, who is currently Harvard’s associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will take the reins of the Greencastle, Ind. institution on July 1. “He was, far and above, the best candidate,” said Sarah R. Wallace, chairwoman of the DePauw presidential search committee. “The selection committee voted unanimously to endorse him in one vote. He had many attributes that we were looking for in terms...
Though some researchers say the sexual spree of the '20s was confined to big cities and campuses, the famous study, Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd, found otherwise. By the middle of the decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during...