10 Facts About Walter Berns

Walter Berns was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.

Since she persuaded him that he did not have a future as a writer, Walter Berns returned to academia.

Walter Berns taught political philosophy at Louisiana State University and Yale University.

Walter Berns taught at Cornell from 1959 to 1969 and chaired the Department of Government from 1963 to 1967.

Walter Berns was less than impressed by the attitudes of the faculty class at the time:.

Walter Berns was an active participant in the debates leading up to the takeover of the Cornell student union by black separatist activists in 1969.

Walter Berns taught at Toronto until 1979, at which point he moved to Washington to teach at Georgetown and conduct constitutional law research at AEI.

Walter Berns served on the Judicial Fellows Commission, the National Council on the Humanities, the board of directors of the Institute for Educational Affairs, the Joint Undertaking of the American Historical Association and American Political Science Association to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the US Constitution, and the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress.

Walter Berns married Irene Lyons Walter Berns in 1951; they lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

In 2005, Berns received the National Humanities Medal from President George W Bush.