Dr. Richard Brake - Dr. Richard Brake is Director of ISI’s Culture of Enterprise Initiative, as well as the Institute’s Division of University Stewardship. Brake holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in American government from Georgetown and Virginia, a Ph.D. in American politics from Temple University, and is a former ISI Weaver Fellow. Prior to coming to ISI, Dr. Brake taught American politics at Millersville, Shippensburg, and Temple Universities in Pennsylvania and Stockton College in New Jersey. He also worked as a legislative assistant in both the U.S. and Pennsylvania Houses of Representatives. He recently retired at the rank of captain in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, and serves on a variety of local boards and commissions in his home township of Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania
By now, it is common knowledge that Vivian Schiller was forced to resign last week as CEO of NPR because of the embarrassing comments made by Ron Schiller (no relation), NPR’s fundraising chief. The fascinating part of this story, however, is the unvarnished liberal worldview Mr. Schiller displayed when he was asked for his opinions on such topics as the current state of the Republican Party, the Tea Party movement, and academia. (more)
A lot has been made recently, on both the right and the left, regarding the changes made last week by the Texas Board of Education in that state’s social studies curriculum and textbooks. A leader of the winning conservative faction on the board maintained that they were only adding needed balance to an already ideologically-charged curriculum, arguing that “academia is skewed too far to the left.” A leader of the losing liberal faction countered that “the social conservatives have perverted accurate history to fulfill their own agenda.” In particular, moderates and liberals on the board decried a decision by the conservatives to reduce the prominence of Thomas Jefferson in certain aspects of the history curriculum, given Jefferson’s authorship of the phrase “separation of church and state.” (more)
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