Abigail Thernstrom was a political scientist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, widely known for her scholarship on voting rights, race, and education policy in America. She served as vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and co-authored several influential books with her husband, historian Stephan Thernstrom. She contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on topics including gerrymandering and education.
After Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953, it was no surprise that the adoptive parents of their two sons chose to send the orphaned brothers to the Little Red School House, a New York private school. In the McCarthy era, Little Red and its high school, Elisabeth Irwin, were havens for…
ON MARCH 1, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving the Texas congressional redistricting plan engineered in 2003 by former House majority leader Tom DeLay. Appellants charge both that the Texas map was partisan districting run amok and that it violated the right of minority…