If you haven't noticed yet, we have an inferiority complex here at Duke. It's subtle, but you start to see it soon enough.
Welcome freshmen, and thanks for all the publicity. I spent the summer in Austria, and even there I couldn't help but hear about our University's summer reading assignment.
Some recent letters have appeared in The Chronicle that criticize the Editorial Board's support for ending the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
Nuclear deterrence works. It always has, it always will. This is the single greatest lesson of the Cold War, and it remains true even post-9/11.
Librarians do not usually speak out publicly on tenure decisions, but having been the University's military history bibliographer for nearly 25 years, I feel both qualified and compelled to write...
I was distressed to see such a misrepresentation of the wedding scheduling process for the Duke Chapel in The Chronicle recently.
I usually like anti-drug ads.
Thirty years ago last month, President Richard Nixon, Law '37, signed into law the legislation that jolted women's athletics forward.
It’s 2:15 a.m., Monday morning, and I should be studying for tomorrow’s quiz. But if we’re here at Duke to learn, I’ve got something much more important to think about—and it all started when my...