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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 →

It is the most commonly denied undeniable fact: our world just keeps getting better. Even as scholars, pundits and the guy across the bar beat the ancient empty drum of doom, the… Read Article →

Why do so many white people put themselves at the center of every story about race? Why do they keep turning the problems that afflict too many African-Americans into questions about their… Read Article →

I wanted to ask my acquaintance if he was experiencing a torturous mid-life crisis or had lost his mind altogether. That seemed too pointed, so I said: Why are you running for… Read Article →