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CORRECTION: A Feb. 7 op-ed, "Britain and Catholicism" incorrectly stated that Canada is a commonwealth of the United Kingdom. On the contrary, it is sovereign and not subject to any British legislative power. However, Canada is a member of both the Commonwealth realm, an organization of 16 sovereign countries that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch, and the Commonwealth of Nations, an international organization composed of 53 sovereign states, many of which used to be British colonies. Also, the writer mistakenly referenced the "Commonwealth League of Nations." This organization does not exist. The writer intended to reference...
...Tuesday night speech aimed at the masses rather than the oligarchs, Obama made a concerted effort to transcend race - the dominant subject between the campaigns the last three weeks - and Clinton, too. Trying out a new slogan, Obama said Super Tuesday proved, "this time can be different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama...
...Montclair State is indicative of a much larger problem—that media outlets are too often funded by those whom they critique. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a non-profit private corporation that provides some funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio, is subject to both funding cuts and personnel changes proposed by the White House and ratified by the Senate. Over the last few years, allegations have arisen that PBS is being forced to toe a more conservative line by a Republican-dominated board that provides about $30 million in funding each year...
...while doing graduate research in Mississippi. To Alford's chagrin, the book was largely panned by local academics, and its story remained in relative obscurity. Though it has remained in print since its release, Alford admits that the dramatization of Haley's novel had burned many out on the subject. "No sour grapes," Alford told TIME, acknowledging that Roots absorbed much of the day's attention on black history subjects. "But the seeds had been sown for that year...
...Refusing to accept the ideas of Enlightenment liberals such as John Locke “as immutable truths good at all times and places,” Dewey insisted that we instead conceive of liberty “as something subject to historic relativity...