Tag results for: humanities
Opinion | The Last Gasp of 20th-Century NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is stuck in the past. NASA halted its planned first launch of its Space Launch System moon rocket Monday, owing to a...
Opinion | ‘Popular’ Historians Are No Longer Alone in Being Lured by Politics
History is in fashion in Joe Biden’s Washington. If you want to flatter the president, call his latest initiative “historic.” If you want him to flatter you, you’d...
Opinion | The Unmaking of American History by the Woke Mob
Academic historians are losing their sense of the past. In his August column for the American Historical Association’s journal, Perspectives on History, James H. Sweet warned that academic...
Opinion | The Case for an American Revolution in Morals
Somerville, Mass.It’s hard to contemplate American public life in the 21st century and not arrive at the unhappy conclusion that we are led by idiots. The political class...
Opinion | Save the International Space Station
By Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jane HarmanAug. 16, 2022 6:22 pm ETThe International Space Station is a major achievement. It was created in the same pioneering spirit that...
Opinion | A Sickbed Call From Historian David McCullough
When I caught chickenpox from my infant daughter in 1997, I knew I was in trouble. The virus can be serious when it strikes adults, and I was...
