All in all, I think Glenn Beck’s riff on my article was far more measured than I would have expected. Compared to the ad hominem attacks I’ve endured from many of Beck’s followers in the comments sections of various blogs, Beck himself was comparably very civil and fair. A former student had emailed me...
The Reverend Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University recently conferred upon Glenn Beck an honorary doctorate in the humanities. It’s official: Beck is now a doctor of philosophy. Liberty University’s honoring of Beck is fitting because he has clearly established himself as Fox News’s resident “historian,” with his area of expertise being American civilization, with emphases...
We hear repeatedly that President Obama and the Democrats’ shouldn’t attempt any boldly progressive reforms because we live in a “center-right” country. Pundits like Charles Krauthammer, when they’re not warning us about the danger of deficits they helped Bush create, constantly tell us that any problem in Washington stems from the Democrats not accepting...
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Municipal Workers
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life fighting for the collective bargaining rights of municipal workers in the city of Memphis. The garbage collectors who were striking were responding to unsafe conditions (a worker was crushed by a truck), a sub-minimum wage, non-existent benefits, zero bargaining rights. Mayor Henry Loeb beat the workers down...
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