Education should turn minds into mythbusters. It should help develop the critical thinking tools required to ask questions and test assumptions in order to cut through the lazy ideas and tendentious nonsense… Read Article →
In the early 1890s an unthinkable alliance produced an unacceptable outcome for North Carolina Democrats, as poor whites suffering from a sharp economic downturn began joining with black and white Republicans to… Read Article →
Should libraries fine patrons who fail to return books, CDs and movies on time? Does it surprise you that the Wake County library system and our county Board of Commissioners say they… Read Article →
When my physicist pal tells me time isn’t real – that it’s just a tool we invented to order experience – I ask him to speak up because my ears ain’t what… Read Article →
I hadn’t spoken to my former Raleigh News & Observer colleague in a month of Sundays, but the reason for his call was clear immediately after the “Hey”: In polite terms he… Read Article →
In these distastefully partisan times, let’s take a moment to savor our most American holiday, Thanksgiving. Now that July 4 has become just a day off for most people – albeit one… Read Article →
The college admissions scandal unfolding in Hollywood powerfully debunks the left’s view of America as a rigged and racist society. The 50 or so actors and executives implicated so far did not… Read Article →
Kids are different today – in troubling ways. Studies and polls reveal they are far more prone to anxiety and depression than previous generations and more of them embrace nanny-state socialism. Multiple… Read Article →
There was an alarming recent article in the News & Observer. It quoted one student at Green Hope High School in Cary who warned of declining mental health and rising suicide rates… Read Article →
Even the suggestion of racial animus can get you fired these days as a Winston-Salem manlearned recently after he asked an African-American to prove she was entitled to use the community pool. So,… Read Article →