If the United States no longer seems so different from other developed nations, and if perhaps it never did, then it has lessons to learn from them.
From Elmer Ellsworth to Bree Newsome, Americans have risked life and limb to remove a symbol of a cause they revile.
In recent decades higher-education institutions have tried to lure students with extravagant amenities, but some are finding that these attempts can actually threaten enrollment and retention.
A new citizen. Small-business owners. A high-school student. In Pennsylvania, the country’s fastest-growing electorate is diverse and divided.
A nonadmirer once described the writings of Thomas Carlyle as “the history of silence in thirty volumes by Mr. Wordy.” But Carlyle was a dry well next to the 3000-barrels-a-day prosifiers who regale us today. What ever happened to the simple declarative sentence? Now it can be told.
Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography.