“How did we get here? And even worse, is it worth it?” *** Culture wars. Humanity has very few mainstays — things that have simply always been. From the beginning, we’ve developed and persisted in language, understanding the importance of communication. We’ve insisted on and ...
I have no blood connection with John Adams, one of our nation’s founding fathers and the second president of the United States. But I’ve read enough of his letters to find a real kinship with the underappreciated man. One of his famous quotes is often paraphrased, but below is a direct ...
Handsomely Rewarded — A Young Man Saves a Train and Gets a Gold Watch One night about a week ago a tremendous mass of earth and rocks slipped down onto the track of the O.R.R.R. a short distance this side of New Martinsville. E.E. Williams, a young farmer living in that neighborhood, ...
Slapping the word “patriot” on things that are emblematic of anything but the behavior of a person who is truly patriotic seems to have become a favorite hobby of a few politicians who have forgotten who they were elected to serve and the founding principles they are bound to ...
I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is. — Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist *** Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change. In many parts of the world, people are facing multiple climate-related events such as severe drought, flooding, air pollution and water ...
If we haven’t met, I would like to introduce myself. I am Michael T. Benson — you can call me “Mike” — president of West Virginia University. I officially started July 15 and I am amazed at how three decades of work in higher education across the United States have brought me, step ...
