Unless something changes drastically, and quickly, Republicans seem to be on the path to lose the White House in 2024. The elephant in the room that threatens to keep the elephants out of the room — a large part of the GOP primary base believes the 2020 election was stolen, while another part of that...
This weekend, someone shot out two electrical substations in Moore County, leaving more than 40,000 of our fellow North Carolinians without power in the cold of December. Somewhere else in the county that night, there was set to be a controversial drag show. Was the attack on the power supply due to the drag show?...
In recent years, the push for more STEM courses in K-12 education has advanced alongside calls for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk start new businesses that improve our quality of life and, perhaps more importantly to its political supporters, help the United States stay ahead of competitors abroad, particularly in...
In the introduction to “Paul Revere’s Ride” by the historian David Hackett Fischer, he notes that “The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical ‘dead white male,’ is the dead white male on horseback.” It was an almost amusing line when Fischer wrote it in the mid-1990s, but now the lack of appreciation...
Politics should never be so central to our lives that we feel justified in muzzling the opposition.
Far too often, the dictates of passion and the pursuit of the political win today trample the dispassionate concern for truth.
Today’s politicians and pundits could learn a valuable lesson from America’s second president.
Agree with them or not, this collection of speeches by Sen. Jesse Helms is notable for its command of the issues.
RALEIGH — Jesse Helms was one of the most important figures in late 20th-century political history, both in North Carolina and nationally. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an acclaimed author and one of the most important voices speaking out against the dangers of communism. The two men shared an important bond. Stella Snyder, writer, researcher, and Helms’ editorial assistant for his memoir, delivered a 2010 lecture for the North Carolina History Project and the Jesse Helms Center titled “No One Can Bar the Road to Truth: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Jesse Helms, Allies in the Battle for Freedom.” Snyder also discussed the topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
The former head of AOL once told Kevin Maney, "A successful business must be either loved or needed." That in a nutshell is the basis of Maney's Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On and Others Don't, a consideration of apparent paradoxes in consumer behavior and why companies that misunderstand them slide into oblivion, even if they have great ideas and plenty of money. The key, he says, is understanding the "fidelity swap" that drives the public's purchasing decisions, and the humble recognition that your company really can't embrace both things at once.
Among anecdotes of "academe's increasingly unapologetic ideological tilt," North Carolina has produced some worthy examples of true education.
