Does the life of a Jewish woman who was born, lived, and died in the same house in Goldsboro have lessons for today’s historians? The answer is yes, lots of lessons, which is certainly one of the reasons that the newly published...
Read MoreA message from Virginia for Democrats: Fight Trump, not each other. North Carolina is not Virginia, and 2017 is not 2018 or 2020. But North Carolina Democrats and Republicans still watched what happened in our neighboring...
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What is the worst idea floating around about the UNC system these days? Jesse White, who headed up...
Read More“The bottom has fallen out of the Republican Party.” So wrote Fort Worth’s Star-Telegram columnist Cynthia Allen last week. “Well,” she continued, “not the bottom exactly. More like the middle.” She was writing about Texas,...
Read MoreDon’t worry about the monuments coming down. There is more. People are rewriting our history. Some folks who oppose taking down Civil War monuments argue that such actions would destroy important history. Meanwhile, a group of...
Read MoreWhat is North Carolina’s best-known and most influential college? It might be an institution that went out of business 60 years ago, Black Mountain College. Still today, educators praise and criticize the college’s progressive...
Read MoreWhy did the powerful hurricane Irma get me thinking about the football stadium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? Think Kenan Memorial Stadium, where the Tar Heels play football and Kenan-Flagler, the name of...
Read MoreCould a miracle hair straightening ignite a deadly epidemic? Can a scientist persuade you that the findings of his discipline show the existence of God? Can the research and experience of a young woman struggling to have a child...
Read MoreAt your age, could you go back to college and get some of the experiences that you missed? It would be a dream come true for some of us. Or a nightmare, like the dreams I still have of being in college, unprepared for an...
Read MoreA monument to a treasured past came down in Chapel Hill last week. No, the Silent Sam statute of a Confederate soldier still stands. The lost monument came from the death of 94-year old Dickson Phillips, the former UNC Law...
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