High School Bash: More than 115 students from 28 states gathered this month at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., for the Young America’s Foundation’s seventh annual National High School Leadership Conference. Sen. George Allen (R.-Va.), a potential 2008 presidential contender, told the students how he was personally touched by his trip to Ronald Reagan’s ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. He also spoke about the importance of “faith, family, football and freedom” in his own life, and how they have given him a moral framework in which he drafts and debates legislation. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), who has made waves with his travels to states with key GOP primaries in 2008, told the students to fight the “cult of multiculturalism” that leads youth to believe America is an odious country full of racism, hate and intolerance. Next up for Young America’s Foundation is the 27th annual National Conservative Student Conference, which will run from July 31 to August 6 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. There is a $375 registration fee that includes all meals, dormitory accommodations, supplies, resource materials and tuition. Students interning in Washington also have the option of attending a select number of events. For more information and discounts for Human Events readers, contact Roger Custer at 1-800-USA-1776.
Interns Wanted: The National Journalism Center (NJC) is now accepting intern applicants for its fall 2005 internship session, beginning September 12. The NJC has provided free 12-week internships with Washington-area media outlets for 28 years. In addition to apprenticing with established Washington journalists, interns attend weekly seminars, at which many of the speakers are NJC alumni, and receive supervision and instruction by NJC editors in reporting and computer-assisted research. There is job-bank placement assistance with NJC’s network of media contacts upon completion of the internship and throughout interns’ careers. There is also a $500-per-month scholarship available for accepted applicants. To apply for an NJC internship, fill out and submit the online application at www.NJC.YAF.org. For more information, contact Alex X. Mooney or Mark LaRochelle at 1-800-USA-1776.
Gold Medal Winner: As America continues to debate the role of religion in public life, Nancy Pearcey’s book, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity From Its Cultural Captivity (Crossway), won the 2005 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Award earlier this month for best book in the category of “Christianity and Society.” Pearcey, a former agnostic, has been heralded as “one of the few female intellectuals in evangelicalism,” by the Evangelical Outpost. She is also a musician and a home-schooling mother and the wife of former Human Events Managing Editor Rick Pearcey. “The book rocks secular boats because it argues that God is a public figure,” Nancy Pearcey said. “It shows why secularists cannot simply relegate religion to the private realm of faith and feelings, which is the most common way of stripping Christianity of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.” Pearcey is the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute. Since 1977, she has examined the interface between worldview and contemporary issues, such as modern science. She is also currently a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.
