A form of art, growing and nurturing communities. A block on which to build neighborhoods, relationships. Simple phrases, lacking description but begging for illustration, detailed, contextual description. What’s coming is a common refrain from me, used many times in myriad fashions. Yet it’s always…
As an academic dean of library services for the past 40 years, I think I have a good eye for what constitutes censorship. Cancel culture, a new term for an old and deadly form of silencing your enemies has recently shown its ugly face and has unmistakably assumed the role…
The late U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a N.C. Republican, ended his speeches on the House floor about the pitfalls of Afghanistan by asking God’s blessing and protection for our service members. After 20 years in the war-torn country, U.S involvement in Afghanistan ends just as Jones predicted. Yet, one wonders…
The travails of Albemarle County Baptists and other religious dissenters during the 1760s and 1770s had a strong impression on Thomas Jefferson.
Tax dollars fund North Carolina’s public charter schools. But those schools operate — by design — outside the traditional district school system. That setup has prompted an interesting legal question: How closely is a charter school tied to state government? Two recent court cases are giving judges at the state…
People have recalculated the risk-reward ratio and concluded that living in a lower-density environment is more attractive than it used to be.
The American founders were diligent students of history. We would be wise to check our arrogance and channel their knowledge about government and human nature. The separation of powers concept is an essential framework of our Constitution designed to prevent the tyranny of centralized power. Unfortunately, a concept that is…
National instant background checks have made the racist NC pistol permit process obsolete but gun control advocates refuse to let it go.
The North Carolina High School Athletics Association would continue to regulate high school sports in North Carolina, under a new version of the reform legislation presented and passed in a state Senate committee. Carolina Journal has been reporting for months on efforts to reform high school sports and specifically…
Eleven years after Republicans captured control of both state legislative chambers in the 2010 election, few Democrats remain who have ever served in a majority. Now their strategy is simple; oppose the majority. Having so few Democrats with experience in governing is making cutting a budget deal…
