Back to Segregation, by Order of the Courts By James Jackson Kilpatrick At the time Kilpatrick wrote this piece, Brown v. Board of Education was 16 years old. The courts had gone from forbidding schools to exclude students based on race to requiring school districts to change school locations and bus students from one school to another in order to have sufficiently "integrated" racial ratios. Read the article here. |
Oswald: Fiat Lux By the Editors Albert H. Newman's book on the assassination of JFK published in 1970 showed the inaccuracies of the Warren Commission Report. Revealing the fascinating history of Lee Harvey Oswald's life, the new scholarship put to rest the claims that Oswald was not really a political assassin and Communist ideologue. Read the article here. |
The War Syndrome By James Burnham From the "Protracted Conflict" column some harsh criticism of the young Vietnam-era generation: "Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- this is their unforgivable crime -- cheated them out of their war. You can't count this dreary police action/ business-as-usual/no uniform during off duty hours/no parades or austerity/or anyone can slip out of it by just signing up for college -- you can't count that as your war. (Though, significantly enough, few of the ones who have actually fought in it are among the militant dissenters.)" Read the piece here. |
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