Several years ago, an occasional contributor to American Thinker, John Kenneth Press, shared with readers a letter he had just received from a good friend, whom he called Sandra.  This was a “Dear John” letter, but with a difference.  Sandra did not now wish to see another guy, nor had she discovered that John was seeing someone else.  She was terminating the relationship, she told John, on political grounds:  his conservatism was unacceptable to her as “a global citizen.” This was, Press wrote, “one of the most painful letters I have ever received.”  Sandra and he had been very close.  For 3 ½ years they had been the only students in their doctoral program cohort—which appears to have been, from Sandra’s prose, in education. The letter elicited over 300 reader comments  (no longer viewable, unfortunately).  Many readers shared similar experiences.  One of the most poignant was...(Read Full Article)