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Are Conservative Historians Excluded from Search Committees?

by David Horowitz

This is an excerpt from a talk Mr. Horowitz gave at Restoration Weekend, a meeting at which conservatives discuss social and political issues.Shortly after 9/11, I was at an eastern university. The kids'll take me out to a local diner before the speech, and the faculty advisor will often be there. And here he was, and he was a white-haired – all of the conservative professors are white-haired

In What Ways Am I an American Writer?

by David Herbert Donald

Below is one of fifteen essays recently published by the State Department to promote American values around the world. The writers were asked to answer the question: "In what sense do you see yourself as an American writer?" The essays, published on the Internet, will appear in a sixty-page booklet distributed exclusively in foreign countries. As the

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

by Matthew Levinger

"No more Munichs," President Bush warned at the November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round of NATO expansion. The president should have added:"No more Sarajevos."The notorious Munich conference of 1938, where Britain and France a

In Defense of the Filibuster

by Joanne Mariner

When George W. Bush was asked about the federal judiciary during the 2000 presidential campaign, he cited Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as the Supreme Court justices he most admired."I don't believe in liberal, activist judges," he later explained

Will George Bush Turn Out to Be More Like Reagan or Ike?

by Judith Apter Klinghoffer

9/11 led the United States to embark once again on a global campaign to make the world "safe for democracy." This time the enemy is terror, the military method favored by Islamism, a global ideology seeking to turn counties into Moslem the

Why I Was Denied Tenure

by Robert David "KC" Johnson

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Do We Have to Worry About George W. Bush Packing the Courts?

by Evan Stephenson

President George W. Bush plans to “pack” the federal courts with conservatives. Or so say a growing list of important people: Senators Charles Schumer and Patrick Leahy, Representatives Elijah Cummings and Anthony Weiner, Yale Law’s B

Dallek and Kennedy: The Media Reaction

by HNN Staff

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Interview with Bob Dallek

by Rick Shenkman

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A Kennedy Biographer Assesses the Dallek Disclosures

by Laurence Leamer

Kennedy had his own heroic qualities in his refusal to live life as a semi-invalid.

Debate: Should Librarians Remove Bellesiles's Book from the Shelves?

by Jerome Sternstein Vs. Eugene Volokh

Should librarians take Michael Bellesiles's Arming America off the main circulation shelves? MAYBE: Mr. SternsteinThe other day, while traveling back from New York City, I heard an item on local Public Radio. It said that a reader in Goshen, N.Y. (there is also a Goshen, Conn., and a Goshen, MA) complained about Arming America being on the open shelves despite the fact it had been discredited,

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

by Rick Shenkman

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Historical Fraud and the Seduction of Ideas: The Poulshock Case

by Jerome L. Sternstein

Much of the commentary about the latest plagiarism scandal involving Stephen Ambrose, and to a much lesser extent, Doris Kearns Goodwin, portray them as victims of their own success. As best-selling authors of popular narratives that appeal to a vast audience hungry for well-told stories about America's past, they inevitably succumbed to the temptations of the market place which, the commentators invariably remind us, rewards speed rather than reflection, flash rather than substance. Had they o

My Five Minutes of Infamy

by Richard M. Berthold

Prior to 11 September 2001 I was simply a professor of classical history, popular on the campus but essentially unknown beyond the confines of the second-rate university where I have taught for the last thirty years. Then, on that day, while preparing to leave for an eight o'clock Western Civilization class, I watched in amazement as two airplanes flew into buildi

Responses to the Emory Report on Michael Bellesiles

by HNN Staff

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The Historian Who Has Been Sentenced to Death

by Juan Cole

Breaking News: Mr. Cole informs HNN that twenty profesors at Tarbiyat Mudarris University--where Aghajari teaches--have resigned in protest. The death sentence passed against a professor of history at Tehran's Tarbiyat Mudarris University has provoked justified rage and indignation throughout the world and even in Iran itself. Hashem Aghajari stands accused of advocating disrespect for religious figures. Since the death sentence was confirmed in early November, student

There's Another Name for Regime Change

by Michael D. Richards

All indications are that regime change in Iraq is still on the agenda of the Bush administration. Ironically, the administration has created a situation in which anything less than the invasion, defeat and occupation of Iraq will be considered a failure.Why have President Bush and his advisers staked their reputation on such a risky policy as regime change? An examination of the Cold War policy of"rollback" may help explain this obsession."Rollback," a concept articulated i

Democracy in Iraq? Yes

by Mark Safranski

Commentators and activists of the far Left and Right are agitated at the prospect of an American attack on Iraq. This anxiety is for a variety of reasons but for both ends of the political spectrum the idea of an Iraqi democracy emerging from the rubble of Saddam's dictatorship appears to be particularly alarming possibility. The ability of the United States to shepherd a conquered state to democracy is dismissed as a hopeless quagmire by paleo-conservative author Larry Auster who de

The Bush Administration's Radical Bellicosity

by Joyce Appleby

The entanglement of the United States in Middle East politics gets tighter and tighter with every turn of events. Although the destruction of the World Trade Center burst upon us as a totally unsuspected development, the September attack in fact came after 50 years of American involvement in the affairs of Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq, not to mention Israel. As President Bush poises our armed forces to take action against Iraq should that nation fail to comply wit

Ann Lane's Response

by Ann Lane

Editor's Note: After Nathan Williams completed his article we sent it over to Ann Lane to give her an opportunity to correct any errors and to draft a response. She emailed us a statement and sent the article to her friend Sandi Cooper. After hearing back from Lane and Cooper we made several changes and gave Lane a chance to revise her statement. The revised statement, which was dated Novemb