D.G. Martin
Why it’s basketball, not politics, on our minds
Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 29, 2016 | D.G. Martin
Get used to it! Even though we are in the middle of a national election contest with choices so varied, so unusual, so important, and with a possible result that would stretch the traditions of American democracy… Even...
Read MoreSpring reading: Food, basketball, race, waterways, politics, and a new literary thriller
Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 22, 2016 | D.G. Martin
Tracing the cause of discontent to some demagogue
Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 15, 2016 | D.G. Martin
Have you had enough of presidential candidates flying in and out of North Carolina looking for primary votes? Wouldn’t it be nice if they came to see us after the election, like our first president, George Washington, who...
Read MoreShe’ll be thanking him in November
Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 8, 2016 | D.G. Martin
If Hillary Clinton is elected president in November, her very first thank-you should go to Bernie Sanders. “What?” you ask. “How could she thank Sanders when his vigorous campaign took people away from her natural and expected...
Read MoreA Firebrand North Carolinian and the President’s Wife
Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 1, 2016 | D.G. Martin
One more question before we forget about the black history month just ended: How did President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1938 visit to the University of North Carolina lead to a long friendship between the president’s wife and a...
Read MoreWould a name change be enough?
Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 23, 2016 | D.G. Martin
Should Fayetteville State University, the state’s oldest public HBCU (historically black college or university), change its name to the University of North Carolina at Fayetteville? Last week The Fayetteville Observer reported...
Read MoreLee Smith’s best story yet
Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 16, 2016 | D.G. Martin
Lee Smith’s upcoming book, “Dimestore: A Writer’s Life,” tells her best story yet. After publishing 13 novels and numerous short stories that have won for her a passionately loyal group of fans and friends, the best-selling...
Read MoreDiscarding unelectable candidates, but holding on to their supporters’ enthusiasm
Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 9, 2016 | D.G. Martin
The trick to winning elections, old political warhorses say, is to rally the enthusiasm of the young, the idealistic, and the angry crazies, without getting stuck with a presidential candidate who cannot be stomached by the...
Read MoreCoughs and sneezes about campus monuments and names
Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 2, 2016 | D.G. Martin
“When America catches a cold, Britain sneezes — eventually.” Writing in The New York Times, Matthew d’Ancona, a graduate of Britain’s Oxford University and columnist for British papers, The Guardian and The Daily Evening...
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