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The Rockefeller Revolution
As a student, I rarely receive noteworthy mail. I check my College mailbox every couple of weeks, when I’m both around that area of campus and bored. Normally the most interesting finds are the various curiosities addressed to the person who had my mailbox previously (clock catalogs, anyone?).
Yesterday was an exception. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Nelson Rockefeller’s birth and the 25th birthday of his namesake Center at Dartmouth, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences (or, “Rocky”). The Center is celebrating the year with an enhanced variety of public programs, described in its Spring newsletter.
That was yesterday’s mail item that broke the rule. But the Rocky newsletter (that’s its pdf) is noteworthy not for describing the Center’s upcoming events (that’s what newsletters do), but for fascinating essay it features on Gov. Rockefeller’s political legacy. The essay argues that contrary to appearances, Gov. Rockefeller’s centrism left him a legacy that is not only visible if you know how to look, but so dominant that it actually sets the terms of today’s debate.
The piece is so interesting that it stimulated student discussion, a phenomenon utterly unprecedented, in my experience, with respect to the many termly newsletters that get shoved into all of our College mailboxes. And so far I’ve heard not one but two separate conversation about it.
To top it all off, the essay’s author is John H. Hinderaker ‘71, an author of Power Line Blog and a member of Rocky’s Board of Visitors. Read it, why don’t you?
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