Colleges Shouldn't Replace Military History With Women's Studies, Crocheting

Michael Barone notes a fascinating disconnect between the history that literate people want to read and the history that academics (by no means all of them literate) want to teach. One example is the replacement of scholars of the colonial and founding period by those into more fashionable pursuits. Another is the replacement of military historians—whose subject matter is of such great interest to literate readers—with academics into women's studies, or crocheting or the like.

U.S. News reported last year on military historians' lack of academic respect and John Miller of National Review writes on how universities are trying to deprivilege military history. To ignore military history is to destroy and obliterate important knowledge or, as Pat Moynihan put it "to burn the library at Alexandria."

Stanford and other elitist halls of politically-left indoctrination ignore at their risk the rumblings of the 'proletariat' against the excessive intrusian into their lives and liberties and highway robbery in government spending. They misjudge the depth of pentup protests which surfaced at the tea parties and may be the shot across the bow by American's who have enjoyed the freedoms and liberty provided in our Constitution and won't give a pass to the 'progressive'and radical politicians who are in control in Washington now.

Joan Archibald of CA 2:40AM May 07, 2009