WEB Dubois is a hero of the academic left because he adopted Marxism in his latter days—battling with the FBI, joining the Communist Party in 1961, and then emigrating to Ghana, where he died in 1963. But what is often forgotten is the earlier great debate he had with Booker T. Washington in the latter […]| Minding The Campus
The first thing that one needs to understand about the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) is that it exists in its own dimension of reality. It’s called “Planet UMass” for a reason. The second thing that one needs to understand is that much as federal law supersedes state law, university policy supersedes all laws, and […]| Minding The Campus
Rudolf Haffenreffer Jr. (1874-1954) was a successful beer magnate during the era of regional breweries, including Narragansett, which was once the dominant brand throughout New England. In 1903, he purchased 376 acres of oceanfront land in Rhode Island, which happened to be where “King Phillip’s War” had both started in 1675 and ended in 1676 […]| Minding The Campus