It’s the usual race to the finish at the end of the school year, and I’m not in the lead (as usual). But I’ve been passing significant milestones, grabbing water as I can. One was the recently completed TBS (which stands for “The Bloomington Symposia”), sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, the subject of… Continue reading Free Speech and the University: A Post Script
Tag: Cold War Civil Rights
Cold War Women’s (Reproductive) Rights
My reasoning is by analogy and somewhat backwards. If Mary Dudziak is right about Cold War civil rights (and I believe she is), then what one would expect to happen after the end of the Cold War would be a lessening of the federal government’s pressure on states to behave well. The Voting Rights Act… Continue reading Cold War Women’s (Reproductive) Rights
The South, Russia, and Other Places of Occupation
A friend of mine said the other day that he never really felt he understood the deep-seated tensions of the American South until, during a year he spent as a Fulbright Scholar in Belgrade, a local man commented on his attempts to grasp that country’s deep-seated tensions by noting, “It’s hard to understand when your… Continue reading The South, Russia, and Other Places of Occupation
Russell Scott Valentino 