Dossier
Phil Bredesen
Coverage of Phil Bredesen in the Nexus archive.
- Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities
Academia has a political diversity problem. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, is noticing it.
- Editor’s notebook: The silence of Tennessee’s ‘statesmen’
The article discusses the silence of Tennessee's prominent former political figures, including Phil Bredesen, Howard Baker, Al Gore, Bill Haslam, and Lamar Alexander, on controversial issues. Al Gore recently criticized Tennessee's mid-decade redistricting as 'a problem for democracy,' while others rarely address contentious topics despite their political influence.