Books
Professors and Politics
– Cornell Daily Sun, May 4, 1962.Excerpt: The purpose of the university places it in a position of uneasy tension with the community, and the tension is likely to increase with the extent to which this purpose is… More
Academic Freedom and Campus Hooliganism
– Washington Times, June 8, 1983.Teaching the Founding of the United States
– Politics in Perspective 13:1 (Fall 1985).Abstract: If students are to understand the American Constitution, they must, like the Founders, take political philosophy seriously. Books and essays that college teachers can use to teach… More
M. Richard Zinman on Walter Berns and Liberal Education
– Michigan State University, August 2005.I began teaching at James Madison College in 1969. I was twenty-six years old. I had grown up in New York City and been educated at minor outposts of eastern civilization, Cornell (in… More
Remembering Herbert Storing
– In Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose… More
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
– Donald A. Downs, Minding the Campus, April 20, 2009.Excerpt: Forty years ago this week, an armed student insurrection erupted on the Cornell campus. I was a sophomore on campus at the time and later wrote a book on the events, Cornell ’69:… More
Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
– Donald A. Downs, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).Describes the armed student insurrection that erupted on the Cornell campus in 1969; Walter Berns, then-government professor, resigned as a result of the student protests.
Essays
Professors and Politics
– Cornell Daily Sun, May 4, 1962.Excerpt: The purpose of the university places it in a position of uneasy tension with the community, and the tension is likely to increase with the extent to which this purpose is… More
Academic Freedom and Campus Hooliganism
– Washington Times, June 8, 1983.Teaching the Founding of the United States
– Politics in Perspective 13:1 (Fall 1985).Abstract: If students are to understand the American Constitution, they must, like the Founders, take political philosophy seriously. Books and essays that college teachers can use to teach… More
M. Richard Zinman on Walter Berns and Liberal Education
– Michigan State University, August 2005.I began teaching at James Madison College in 1969. I was twenty-six years old. I had grown up in New York City and been educated at minor outposts of eastern civilization, Cornell (in… More
Remembering Herbert Storing
– In Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose… More
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
– Donald A. Downs, Minding the Campus, April 20, 2009.Excerpt: Forty years ago this week, an armed student insurrection erupted on the Cornell campus. I was a sophomore on campus at the time and later wrote a book on the events, Cornell ’69:… More
Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
– Donald A. Downs, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).Describes the armed student insurrection that erupted on the Cornell campus in 1969; Walter Berns, then-government professor, resigned as a result of the student protests.
Commentary
Professors and Politics
– Cornell Daily Sun, May 4, 1962.Excerpt: The purpose of the university places it in a position of uneasy tension with the community, and the tension is likely to increase with the extent to which this purpose is… More
Academic Freedom and Campus Hooliganism
– Washington Times, June 8, 1983.Teaching the Founding of the United States
– Politics in Perspective 13:1 (Fall 1985).Abstract: If students are to understand the American Constitution, they must, like the Founders, take political philosophy seriously. Books and essays that college teachers can use to teach… More
M. Richard Zinman on Walter Berns and Liberal Education
– Michigan State University, August 2005.I began teaching at James Madison College in 1969. I was twenty-six years old. I had grown up in New York City and been educated at minor outposts of eastern civilization, Cornell (in… More
Remembering Herbert Storing
– In Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose… More
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
– Donald A. Downs, Minding the Campus, April 20, 2009.Excerpt: Forty years ago this week, an armed student insurrection erupted on the Cornell campus. I was a sophomore on campus at the time and later wrote a book on the events, Cornell ’69:… More
Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
– Donald A. Downs, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).Describes the armed student insurrection that erupted on the Cornell campus in 1969; Walter Berns, then-government professor, resigned as a result of the student protests.
Multimedia
Professors and Politics
– Cornell Daily Sun, May 4, 1962.Excerpt: The purpose of the university places it in a position of uneasy tension with the community, and the tension is likely to increase with the extent to which this purpose is… More
Academic Freedom and Campus Hooliganism
– Washington Times, June 8, 1983.Teaching the Founding of the United States
– Politics in Perspective 13:1 (Fall 1985).Abstract: If students are to understand the American Constitution, they must, like the Founders, take political philosophy seriously. Books and essays that college teachers can use to teach… More
M. Richard Zinman on Walter Berns and Liberal Education
– Michigan State University, August 2005.I began teaching at James Madison College in 1969. I was twenty-six years old. I had grown up in New York City and been educated at minor outposts of eastern civilization, Cornell (in… More
Remembering Herbert Storing
– In Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose… More
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
– Donald A. Downs, Minding the Campus, April 20, 2009.Excerpt: Forty years ago this week, an armed student insurrection erupted on the Cornell campus. I was a sophomore on campus at the time and later wrote a book on the events, Cornell ’69:… More
Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
– Donald A. Downs, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).Describes the armed student insurrection that erupted on the Cornell campus in 1969; Walter Berns, then-government professor, resigned as a result of the student protests.
Teaching
Professors and Politics
– Cornell Daily Sun, May 4, 1962.Excerpt: The purpose of the university places it in a position of uneasy tension with the community, and the tension is likely to increase with the extent to which this purpose is… More
Academic Freedom and Campus Hooliganism
– Washington Times, June 8, 1983.Teaching the Founding of the United States
– Politics in Perspective 13:1 (Fall 1985).Abstract: If students are to understand the American Constitution, they must, like the Founders, take political philosophy seriously. Books and essays that college teachers can use to teach… More
M. Richard Zinman on Walter Berns and Liberal Education
– Michigan State University, August 2005.I began teaching at James Madison College in 1969. I was twenty-six years old. I had grown up in New York City and been educated at minor outposts of eastern civilization, Cornell (in… More
Remembering Herbert Storing
– In Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose… More
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
– Donald A. Downs, Minding the Campus, April 20, 2009.Excerpt: Forty years ago this week, an armed student insurrection erupted on the Cornell campus. I was a sophomore on campus at the time and later wrote a book on the events, Cornell ’69:… More
Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
– Donald A. Downs, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).Describes the armed student insurrection that erupted on the Cornell campus in 1969; Walter Berns, then-government professor, resigned as a result of the student protests.