Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ

At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.

James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts.

Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn't -- "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Vol. 1" -- has decamped for the University of Florida's Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education.

It's not the warmer weather that's drawn him away from Cambridge, Massachusetts.