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...Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the United States government bestows for individual achievement in the humanities...
Vendler’s 30-minute speech, entitled “The Ocean, The Bird, and The Scholar,” was the reprise of a speech she gave last year in Washington D.C. upon receiving the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture award...
When he labored over those words, Jefferson would never have guessed that they would find their way into everything from Supreme Court decisions to elementary school textbooks over the course of the next 200 years. But as surprised as he would have been at their longevity, he would have been gratified that the Constitutional principle that they clarify has been, more or less, upheld. Until...
Flying in the face of the First Amendment, Jefferson’s 40th successor has chosen to advocate federal government support of “faith-based initiatives,” effectively taking a wrecking ball to the wall of separation about which Jefferson had written so passionately...
...most recent State of the Union address, President Bush told Americans that faith-based initiatives would transform America “one soul at a time.” Simply put, the government should not be in the business of saving souls. It should be helping people. Somewhere, Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave...