Academia is deeply broken, a product of its wild success and staggering failures. It cranks out the finest scholars, leaders, and minds the world has ever seen. It also buries students in unmanageable debt and breaks many of those same scholars with its insidious caste system. How can a system that is so successful that […]

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The Southern Strategy is a myth! Let me start with this: Candace Owens is wholly unqualified to speak at a Congressional hearing on the rise of white nationalism. Full stop. She has no training, formal or otherwise, as a historian. She is a journalism school drop out who peddles conspiracy theories online. On her best […]

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By the time then-Vice President Biden had arrived, he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous- and quickly gave me a hug. After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in to tell me “thank you for letting him do this” and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering […]

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