If your teeth clench when you get angry, grab a mouth guard before reading Prof. Penelope Blake’s account of an academic summer workshop, sponsored by the NEH, on World War II — specifically, the war in the Pacific — at which the United States and our military were castigated by the usual tenured radicals as imperialists who brought Pearl Harbor on ourselves, were just as bad as the Nazis, etc.

Professor Blake’s letter to her congressman calls for delaying NEH’s $161 million annual operating budget (including $71 million for more of these fabulous conferences) until reforms are implemented. That’s fine, but I say why delay when you can defund, period? We couldn’t afford it even if it weren’t promoting anti-Americanism. Meanwhile, Powerline’s Scott Johnson, who initially brought much-needed attention to Professor Blake’s report, has follow-up, here.