Maya Angelou, RIP
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 28th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Maya Angelou, RIP
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
A Commencement Speech That Energized a Nation
Julian Zelizer, CNN
(CNN) — In this year’s season of commencement speeches, these academic rites of passage have become the subject of fierce political controversy.Just over the past few months, several prominent invited speakers, including Condoleezza Rice, Christine Lagarde, and Robert Birgeneau have withdrawn following a campus backlash to news they would be coming to Rutgers, Smith, and Haverford, respectively. This trend is not entirely new, since college students have been protesting proposed speakers for many decades.
I’m Committed to Restoring Integrity
Eric Shinseki, USA Today
Ignoring the Insanity of Gun Violence
Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Lest we forget, a heavily armed man walked into a Connecticut elementary school 18 months ago and killed 20 first-graders and six adults. And the reaction from Congress in the wake of one of the deadliest mass murders in U.S. history? Proposals to ban assault weapons, limit the capacity of gun magazines and strengthen background checks on gun buyers never had a chance. Those and other reform proposals all fizzled in a moment of national shame.