In the past two decades, a wealth of information has been printed in hard-copy and on the web that allows ready access to some of the most important primary documents regarding Abraham Lincoln. Herewith a list of ten of the most useful and reliable sources.
. . . [W]e can hope to do little more now than snatch a fingernail of a saint from the rack or a handful of ashes from the faggots, and bury them secretly in a flowerpot against the day, ages hence, when a few men begin again to dare to believe there was once something else, that something else is thinkable, and need some evidence of what it was, and the fortifying knowledge that there were those who, at great nightfall, took the loving thought to preserve the tokens of hope and truth.– Whittaker Chambers to William F. Buckley, 1954
Whittaker Chambers, never the most optimistic of chaps at the party, once famously quipped that when he joined Christianity, conservatism, and the West against his old communist cohorts, he was joining the losing side of history.
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David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.
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Van Jones, the Oakland, Calif.-based radical activist and author who was forced to resign his post as the Obama administration's "green jobs czar" in September after it was revealed that he had signed a "truther" petition in 2004 calling for an investigation of President George W. Bush's supposed collusion in the massacres of Sept. 11, 2001, now has a new post: on the faculty of Princeton University.
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Here's an op-ed by Richard Whitmire in the Dallas Morning News. The piece opens by citing the standard numbers on gender gaps in college -- nearly 58 percent of bachelor's degrees go to women and 62 percent of associate's degrees go to women. But note, too, these strange and striking numbers that come later in the piece in response to the dismay of college admissions officers over the disparity in admissions:
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A federal judge ruled Monday that nationally syndicated opinion columns written by a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington are not protected by the First Amendment because he referred to them on a promotion application.
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“In 2000, 56 percent of entering college students backed it. Four years later, freshmen were 57 percent supportive at the time they enrolled, and by graduation, 69 percent of that entering class supported gay marriage.”
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There’s some research (and dissertation-writing advice) that suggests that “writing first” is a key to a prolific writing career. Are there other strategies for mastering the literary way of life?