As President of the Declaration Foundation, I take the chance to say that we are honored to be mentioned, even with malice by the writer, with the Claremont Institute.
This latter group consists of people who have spent their careers spreading lies about Lincoln and his war in order to support the political agenda of the Republican Party.
Freepers who know anything about Alan Keyes, the Chairman of DF, and me, its president, will no doubt be amused at the ignorance of this remark. In the recent controversy over affirmative action, I have both praised and criticised the administration's actions, as I do regularly. I praise them when I think them faithful to American Principole, and criticise when they are not, as was notably the case in the stem cell matter.
They are not about to let the truth stand in their way and are hard at work producing "educational" materials that are filled with false but politically correct history.
To judge this for yourself, go and order our book.
Having fought political correctness for over a decade, served as vice-chair of the anti-race preferences California Civil Rights Initiative, labored against the establishment ... and partly Republican "School-to-Work" scheme, and even published in Journals on the debased idea of "multi-culturalism" I find DiLorenzo's remarks more comical than offensive.
Finally, as to being unwilling to let the selected facts cited by DiLorenzo be spread, I will, as I usually do with his silly writings, post them at the DF website.
I'll also post there Jaffa's latest piece criticising the notion of Diversity, as embodied in the Republican Administration's brief in the Michigan affirmative action cases ... from the Claremont website.
Cheers,
Richard F.
Nice plug Richard. I'm sure all those who have attacked people who criticized DiLorenzo without reading his book, will withold all criticism of your arguments until they read yours. :-)
Incidentally, your book ordering link is broken. Here is a corrected one.