James Piereson’s provocative new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter, 2007) argues that liberalism lost its political dominance and intellectual coherence when it proved too brittle to confront the awkward truth of John F. Kennedy’s assassination at the hands...

Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.

A new book diligently linksthe downfall of American liberalism to the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy.

In his speech in Tucson on Wednesday, Barack Obama put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the shooting.

Conservative critics have complained about the leftward tilt of college and university faculty since the 1950s. In contrast, the American Association of University Professors and similar groups have either denied that such a tilt occurs or refused to acknowledge that a balanced ideological representation is needed to educate students in...

The royal status the Kennedys temporarily achieved will seem bizarre to future generations--perhaps it already does even for those of us who can remember the 1960s.

In The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms,, editors Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.

Commentary,the Wall Street Journal, and The Public Interest constituted what the Russians call a troika, a team of three horses pulling a carriage.