Last Wednesday, I marched with nearly 15,000 other people in the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.
Edward Mahoney-professor emeritus of philosophy and a Catholic priest in the Raleigh Diocese, who passed away Jan. 8-taught my ancient philosophy course in the spring semester of 2003. He was a...
I want to thank Tariq Mohideen, with his Oct. 16 column "Mad as hell," for having the incredible courage to share an absolutely essential message with the Duke community: a plea for greater public...
This is a tale of two crises at Duke. The first is the kind we hear of the vast majority of the time: crimes against victims we can sympathize with, perpetrated by people or forces with whom we...
WASHINGTON - No one quite knew what to expect in a cold parking lot outside the McDonough Gymnasium at Georgetown last Saturday morning. The Duke men's lacrosse team was coming to town, and...
Having escaped from Kansas, I'm now back in the equally strange world of metro-riding, happy hour aficionados known as Duke-in-D.C. Or, as I like to think
In two days, the University of Illinois will abandon its 81-year-old mascot, Chief Illiniwek. A large population of students supported the Chief: in 2004, according to The New York Times, more than...
Introduction to British Literature: 297 seats remaining." ACES wouldn't ever spit out such a ridiculous thing. Humanities classes, with few exceptions, rarely enroll more than 30 students. But what...
In the course of a few generations, four years at college have begun to morph from a luxury for the American elite to a rite of passage. According to U.S. Census data, 4.6 percent of Americans had...
Unleashing the power of the Internet, poor schoolchildren in Ghana can learn about AIDS; professors can re-transmit research otherwise lost in dense academic journals; and perhaps most importantly,...
