March/April 2017

Feeding Frenzy 0

It is usually considered a great honor to be asked to speak at any college commencement ceremony. It rarely gets any better than to be asked to address the large graduating class at the 26,000-student Pasadena City College. When Dr. Eric Walsh accepted the invitation, he had no idea that he was entering a minefield

Attempting To Reverse History 0

One hardly knows whether to be righteously indignant at some of the astounding attempts by Roman Catholic writers to misrepresent and pervert the facts of history, or whether to pass over these exhibitions of a misguided zeal for the reputation of the Papacy as too ridiculous to demand any serious attention. It must be remembered,

Cause and Effect 0

And there shall be wailing and lamentation in the land” might sound biblical or like something out of the faux reality conjured up in The Lord of the Rings and its ilk. Unfortunately, my adaptive quote was in many ways an apt descriptor for the attitude of many as 2017 got under way. A watershed presidential

Human Dignity 0
- March/April 2017
- March 1, 2017
When Martin Luther King, Jr., marched on Selma, wrote a defense of civil disobedience from a jail in Birmingham, and proclaimed his dream of racial equality on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, was he acting in any meaningful way in the tradition of his namesake, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformer Martin Luther? Or were the
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Wisdom, Leadership, and Political Correctness 0
- March/April 2017
- March 1, 2017
Tumultuous events have certainly characterized the recent past. Through it all a common thread is remarkable: obfuscation of facts and reason in favor of political correctness (PC). As Margaret Heffernan said (August 6, 2012), the pursuit of truth requires conflict. To achieve truth, honest exchanges in the spirit of collaboration are essential, and this means
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One Nation Under God?0
- March/April 2017
- March 1, 2017
Kevin M. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a particular interest in conflicts over race, rights and religion, and the making of modern conservatism. He is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005),
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