2025 has been a tough year for small colleges in the Carolinas. Two have closed, a third is in what looks like death throes, and then there’s a fourth on the brink, which we’ll get to in a minute. Down and out are St. Andrews, in Laurinburg, a hundred miles southwest of Raleigh in Scotland … Continue reading Guilford College: On the Brink
I never fell in love in a library. But several times I fell in love with a library, and the experience repeatedly changed my life. The first time came flooding back yesterday, when I saw this news report from AP: “Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find … Continue reading Finding Love (& Living In Sin) In the Library
The DOD “guidance” memo was blunt: ”Identity Months Dead at DOD.” Besides banning Black History Month observances in the military, Hegseth/Trump is now pressing their anti-DEI extermination mission by purging the shelves of Defense Department schools, which 67, 000 elementary & secondary students attend at 160 locations worldwide. (One of them was me, a long … Continue reading Military Schoolkids: Kiss These Books Goodbye! – Hegseth /Trump Censorship Starts
This weekend I was thinking about trouble at Guilford College, when a memory popped up: during my college years, a B- was not a bad grade. Okay, it wasn’t great, especially if you were aiming at the honor roll or grad school. But it was above a C; over the line (if just barely) into … Continue reading Guilford College in Crisis (Again? Yes.)
Adapted from Tell It Slant, by Emma Lapsansky-Werner, with Chuck Fager: For most of the three-plus centuries since the founding of Quakerism, Quakers had viewed the arts as snares and “distractions” from listening to the Word-of-the-Divine within. George Fox threw down the marker as early as 1678: All ye Poets, Jesters, rhimers, makers of Verses … Continue reading Tell It Slant — With Lemonade: A Book Launch at Haverford