The Faculty Lounge

John O'Sullivan, editor of Democratic Review, coined manifest destiny: "in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our…

I did not realize that President Biden was touring Charleston, South Carolina during his last day in office. Biden Addresses Crowd at International African American Museum in Charleston, Post and…

Before he became a movie idol and Las Vegas headliner, Elvis Presley was heavily influenced by African American blues artists, who are the subjects of a great new book: Before ...

Here's that is unusual: the Glamour magazine and an article on the United Daughters Confederacy.  It is here.  I think that UDC is an innocuous institution; the biggest hat-making becomes…

David Lynch has died. Blue Velvet is a weird movie.

This just in: Overview: Ave Maria School of Law is an institution dedicated to training the next generation of lawyers in the Catholic intellectual tradition. The Law School is a…

This just in:We are pleased to announce that the annual Wharton Financial Regulation Conference will take place on Friday, April 25, 2025.Convening as the Trump administration wraps up its first…