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Lincoln and Bush
Caleb McDaniel has a wonderful post this morning about executive power and history.
Social policy and history
And here’s what you get with the failure to know a bit of social history: “You didn’t have a massive immigration of people who were retaining allegiance to another nation and maybe coming here temporarily and then going back,” [Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence Director John] Eastman said. “In 1868, you didn’t make that trip across […]
Punished for speaking your home language
A 16-year-old who speaks English also speaks his parents’ language and is suspended from school for speaking his home language in the hallway, not in class. A nightmare from the early 20th century? No. Today’s Kansas City-area schools. Fortunately, the superintendent of the district rescinded the punishment, but civil-rights advocates are still fuming, and rightly […]
Joann Robinson and E.D. Nixon
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ staying seated on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Since her death, journalists should have had a chance to absorb some of the lesser-known details of her life and the boycott. In particular, I hope that the commemorations honor the contributions of Joann (JoAnn?) Gibson Robinson and Edgar Daniel […]
Family myths, redux
Judith Warner’s column Kids Gone Wild in tomorrow’s NY Times is another complaint about the decline of the American family, this time dressed up as concerns about declining parenting. She briefly acknowledges that children have always been seen as unruly and then blithely ignores what she wrote. If children were somehow unruly both before this […]