Educating for liberty
Subtitle: the first half-century of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
By: Lee Edwards.
Publisher: Regnery Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.; Liberty.; Social sciences -- United States.; Political science -- United States.
Description: "The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) was founded in 1953 to defend traditional liberal education in American colleges and universities against the onslaught of leftist ideologues. With its myriad lectures, journals, fellowships, books, seminars, and mentoring programs, ISI is today the educational pillar of the conservative movement and the leading source of information about a free society for the many students and teachers who reject the post-modernist zeitgeist. In this book, Lee Edwards, the pre-eminent historian of the conservative movement, details how ISI has inspired the minds of collegiate conservatives for decades and prepared them to defend the American and Western patrimony in public office, research organizations, the media, and the academy." "Edwards tells the story of ISI's original focus on combating socialism, its resistance to the cultural crisis of the 1960s and the 1970s, its battle against political correctness in the 1980s and 1990s, and its answer to the renascent anti-Americanism on college campuses after 9/11. ISI's unwavering mission from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism has been to lay the intellectual and cultural foundation for ordered liberty in America and to help the West triumph in the clash of civilizations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.