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‘Please Stop Helping Us’ And ‘Shame’

featuring Shelby Steelevia The New York Times
Monday, March 2, 2015

One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on about the ’60s is that it was a decade of radical change in the nation’s politics, ethnoracial and gender relations, popular culture and international policies.

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Shelby Steele on Shame

by Shelby Steelevia Fellow Talks
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Shelby Steele discusses his latest book Shame How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.

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Uncommon Knowledge With Dartmouth Professors Jennifer Lind And William Wohlforth

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Uncommon Knowledge with Dartmouth professors Jennifer Lind and William Wohlforth on international relations, political theories, and America’s role in the world.

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Fifty-two More Firing Line DVDs Now Available on Amazon

Thursday, February 26, 2015

The DVDs of fifty-two additional programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon.com. Featured guests include Gerald Ford, Clare Boothe Luce, Tom Wolfe, G. Gordon Liddy, Betty Friedan, Malachi Martin, Ben Stein, Jesse Jackson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Tipper Gore, Rudy Giuliani, Arianna Huffington, and Barry Goldwater.  A special anniversary program of Firing Line, “Bill Buckley and Firing Line Get Roasted” is among the newly available episodes.

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Shelby Steele On ABC News

featuring Shelby Steelevia ABC News
Monday, February 23, 2015

Shelby Steele discusses content of his new book Shame: How America’s Past Sins Polarized Our Country.

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President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses The Threat Of 1930s Violent Extremism

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Imagine Obama as an American president in 1939.

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The I Factor

by James W. Ceaservia The Weekly Standard
Monday, February 16, 2015

Presidents and the first-person pronoun: a historical survey.

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Thinkin’ Lincoln

by Bill Whalenvia A Day At The Races
Thursday, February 12, 2015

A quick hat-tip to Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809.

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Hoover Institution's Shelby Steele: How America's Past Sins Polarized Our Country
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Hoover Institution's Shelby Steele: How America's Past Sins Polarized Our Country

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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The Hoover Institution announced today the release of Senior Fellow Shelby Steele’s latest book, Shame: How America’s Past Sins Polarized Our Country, on race in America. 

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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

by Shelby Steelevia Basic Books
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s—when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice—remains unfulfilled.

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The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.