If you ran a business this way… =========== It isn’t quite Ronald Reagan breaking the 1981 air-traffic controllers strike by firing 12,345 of them, banning them from government employment for life, and decertifying their union. But it’s close enough for cheering. On Thursday night the Senate unanimously reversed the Federal Aviation Administration’s sequester furloughs, and the House followed on Friday with a... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Boston and the Un-Bush
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Radical Islam, The LeftOn the Patriot Act, the president is very much his reviled predecessor’s mirror image. === With the terror of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing still seeping into the American psyche, how ironic it is that President Obama traveled this week to Dallas for the opening of the George W. Bush Library. Mr. Obama has built the politics of his presidency—its foreign policy... Read more
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 3
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA good read… ============ In the decades since, faculties have gained “extraordinary authority” over universities, Mr. Kagan says. The changes in the universities were mirrored in the society at large. “The tendency in this century and in the previous century at least has been toward equality of result and every other kind of equality that could be claimed without much regard for... Read more
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 2
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA good read. ======== He means across academia, but that is also true in his case. Mr. Kagan resigned the deanship in April 1992, lobbing a parting bomb at the faculty that bucked his administration. His plans to create a special Western Civilization course at Yale—funded with a $20 million gift from philanthropist and Yale alum Lee Bass, who was inspired by... Read more
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 1
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA very good read. Will be a multi-part post. ===== By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New Haven, Conn. Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his “farewell lecture” here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon’s Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education. Universities, he proposed, are failing... Read more
Remembering Michael Kelly
April 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought Tags: CharacterI wish I would have known him… ======= Michael Kelly had an uncharitable term for the column you are about to read: “The Nice Column.” Nice columns—about ancient enmities overcome and people pulling together for the greater good and models of estimable human conduct and other Helen Keller-type themes—are the ones nice people complain about not finding often enough in the papers.... Read more
