Last updated on: 6/12/2008 | Author: ProCon.org

Abigail Thernstrom, PhD Biography

Title:
Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York
Position:
None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
Reasoning:

No position found as of July 2005

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute in New York
  • Member, Massachusetts State Board of Education
  • Vice-Chair, US Commission on Civil Rights
  • Recipient, American Bar Association’s Certificate of Merit, and Anisfield-Wolf prize for the best book on race and ethnicity
Education:
  • PhD, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1975
Other:
  • Writes frequently for a variety of journals and newspapers, including The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Public Interest
  • Appeared on Fox News Sunday, Good Morning America, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Quoted in:
  1. Is the Voting Rights Act Still Necessary?