Back To School
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 5th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Back To School
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
The anxious emails from students are hitting my in-boxes once again: What time are office hours? Are places in the seminar still available? Where can they get advance copies of the syllabus?I don't have answers to these questions yet; by this time next week I will.Another school year is ready to begin, and for the first time in decades I will be teaching full-time.Unfortunately, I'm returning to a profession in crisis. Over at Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds has been blogging up a storm over what he calls the "˜bubble"˜ in higher education. Parents and students are…
Obama Shouldn’t Dismiss America’s Uniqueness
Mallory Factor, Forbes
For nearly four centuries, we as a people have believed that America has a special and unique role to play in the world. Here is a land of new beginnings and new promise, not merely one nation among others. But we have to ask: Do our leaders still believe this?Americans have believed in American exceptionalism since John Winthrop wrote 380 years ago that America would be a “city on a hill,” shining for all the world to see. When de Tocqueville visited the young United States in the 1830s, he concluded that we were a “unique” nation. He pointed to the truly democratic…
