February 27, 2004

Politics and Scholarship at the NEH

To the Editor:

To the careful reader of Anne Marie Borrego's fine piece on the National Endowment for the Humanities, it is clear that the flagging for scrutiny by the national council of so many proposals recommended by senior staff members clearly points to an inordinate control of funds ("Humanities Endowment Returns to 'Flagging' Nontraditional Projects," January 16). Overriding the work of scholars for the sake of supporting conservative projects seriously jeopardizes the