MANCHESTER, N.H. – The largest newspaper in New Hampshire published an editorial Monday confessing that its endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in last month's first-in-the-nation presidential primary left it with "egg" on its face, citing the governor's turnabout to back Donald Trump.
Christie declared his support for the bombastic billionaire "despite specifically telling us that he would never endorse him," the New Hampshire Union Leader said in an editorial by Joe McQuaid, the publisher of the Manchester-based newspaper.
A recent report by Investor's Business Daily documents the disturbing trend in American higher education away from teaching the great works of Western civilization and toward the teaching of many disciplines through the eyes of the oppressed. As an example, the report points to the University of California Los Angeles, which no longer requires English majors to study Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton, but instead requires students to take classes that examine literature through alternative rubrics such as gender and sexuality.
UCLA is not alone. The 2015-16 course offerings listed in catalogs from area campuses reveal a seismic break from the classics.
