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November 3, 2010 — Scott Johnson

A word from Penelope Blake

Professor Penelope Blake has struck a nerve with her letter to Rep. Donald Manzullo concerning the outrageous NEH-sponsored program at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. Professor Blake has been inundated with messages of support from Power Line readers, many of whom have taken her suggestion to share their thoughts with NEH Chairman Jim Leach ([email protected]) and who have contacted their congressmen on their own. Professor Blake writes: »
November 2, 2010 — Scott Johnson

A word from Penelope Blake

Thanks to all our readers who responded to our post with Professor Penelope Blake’s letter protesting the NEH-sponsored program she attended at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii and asking for something to be done about it. It would be an understatement to say that Professor Blake struck a nerve with our readers, many of whom wrote to request her citation of sources and who otherwise indicated that »
November 12, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Professor Blake appears on Fox News

In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center in Hawaii. The title of the conference was “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War.” As one of the 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, Professor Penelope Blake anticipated an opportunity to visit hallowed sites such as Pearl Harbor, the Arizona Memorial and the Punchbowl Cemetery and engage with scholars who »
November 7, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Professor Blake replies

Professor Penelope Blake is the indomitable teacher who has eloquently protested the program on the Pacific War sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanites at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. Professor Blake’s protest has struck a nerve with many of our readers, some of whom have followed up with their congressmen and some of whom have followed up directly with Chairman Leach himself ([email protected]). In return »
December 7, 2011 — Scott Johnson

Pearl Harbor Day at the NEH

Featured image In July 2010 the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The title of the conference was “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War.” As one of the 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, Professor Penelope Blake anticipated an opportunity to visit hallowed sites such as Pearl Harbor, the Arizona Memorial and the Punchbowl Cemetery »
January 25, 2011 — Scott Johnson

A letter to Jim Leach

We have followed the story of Professor Penelope Blake and the program on the Pacific theater in World War II in a series of posts beginning with “Investigate this” (the letter to Rep. Manzullo that is referred to below is in that post). The program in issue was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, of which Jim Leach is the chairman. Yesterday Professor Blake wrote Leach as follows: »
December 30, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Flayings of Chairman Jim

We have faithfully followed the Sayings of Chairman Jim Leach of the National Endowment for the Humanities since he took the helm of the agency at the dawn of the Age of Obama. In the past few months, thanks to the efforts of Professor Penelope Blake, others such as the editors of the New Criterion and Fox News have begun to take note. Leach combines pomposity and foolishness in a »
December 9, 2010 — Scott Johnson

The NEH vs. America

Jim Leach is the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We have chronicled his speeches in a series of posts seeking to penetrate the essential Leach. Our series of posts on Leach can be accessed here. Leach doesn’t think much of us, and he’s not reluctant to let us know. But he does think highly of himself. Even though he has a staff capable of writing or editing »
November 1, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Investigate this

In a series of posts on Obama administration National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach, we have followed the descent of the NEH into political partisanship and rank buffoonery. Now we turn to problematic programming funded by the NEH. In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The title of the conference was “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of »