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Remembering Gordon Wood, 1933-2026

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and American historian Gordon Wood (1933-2026) delivered a 2007 speech for the John Locke Foundation on key lessons from the American Revolution.

A British lord’s warning to his American cousins on their 250th birthday

"A republic, if you can keep it. Can you, cousins? Can you?" Lord Daniel Hannan asked the 2026 CLC audience.

David Larson

United Nations Foundation funding ‘Green’ staff positions in Governor’s office, state agencies

Cooper's office and state offices receive grants for funding staff climate positions.

Katherine Zehnder

UNC professor shaped modern journalism

As usual, Phil Meyer got there first. In 2005, the veteran journalist and professor spoke at an academic conference in San Antonio. “The demassification of the media did not start with the Internet,” he told a room full of people who’d long assumed otherwise. As early as the 1970s, a proliferation of broadcast outlets and...

John Hood

The ‘Twitter Files’ make Twitter interesting again

Pop some popcorn, open your laptop, and log onto Twitter. Under Elon Musk’s ownership, Twitter is one of the most interesting online places to be. Once the equivalent of an EPA superfund site for toxic rhetoric, Twitter is now center stage in a national debate about censorship, transparency, and government and institutional meddling into content...

Amy Cooke

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David McCullough and the rise of popular history

McCullough is well known for his books, but his voice also helped propel history to the masses.

Ray Nothstine

After more than a century in Chapel Hill, Silent Sam has many tales to tell

Silent Sam, UNC-Chapel Hill’s monument to students who fought and died for the Confederacy, and the object of many quarrels, was toppled Monday night in a historic protest that caps decades of controversy and vandalism — leaving many to question the future of similar memorials around the state. The statue, torn down Aug. 20 by...

Friday Interview: Big Money’s Impact on College Football

RALEIGH — It’s no secret that the world of college football involves huge amounts of money. In the recent book Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gilbert Gaul investigates the impact of that money on schools, teams, and players. During a recent trip to Raleigh, Gaul discussed his findings with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

JLF: Promoting Freedom for a Quarter Century

RALEIGH — From its early days in 1990 with a staff of two — political consultant and former Reagan administration official Marc Rotterman and recent college graduate journalist John Hood — to the present, with a staff of two dozen policy analysts, researchers, journalists, managers, and support staff, JLF has remained true to a singular goal: promoting freedom, limited government, and opportunity for all North Carolinians.