There is no portrait of Philip Meredith, only an X on a government form. Lee wouldn't file the paperwork to free him, so Meredith filed it himself.

William & Mary owned a man named Lemon. It named a scholarship for him and reckoned, at last, with its slaveholding past. The Justice Department has now entered that reckoning into evidence—and opened...

The Secretary of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, just asked every college—W&L included, for the first time— o publish reform pledges by year's end. The talking points for those against aca...

Three Virginia university leaders were forced out by Youngkin-appointed boards doing the Trump administration's DEI dirty work. George Mason's Gregory Washington survived. The difference was a new governor.

The same lie, the same program, the same state, for a decade. When Donald Trump calls California's elections rigged, he isn't describing fraud. He's describing mail ballots, extended counting windows,...

Today, June 1, Alabama state offices are closed. Schools are closed. Courts are closed. The state is observing Jefferson Davis's birthday—one of three holidays Alabama maintains to honor the Confedera...

The Lost Cause didn't need a museum. It had something better: an entire campus organized around a single, uncontested interpretation. Immersion without interpretation isn't education. It's indoctrinat...

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais this week. It's not a voting rights story. It was always a racism story. From the Court to the Pentagon to ICE to immigration, on...

Trump's DOJ has indicted the SPLC for infiltrating the Klan. In 1981, the Klan's own publication made the same objection. The FBI spent decades using identical tactics against civil rights groups. Tru...

Washington and Lee's presidential profile is more serious than expected, but its emphasis on civility reveals a load-bearing contradiction.

Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 were white South Africans. Meanwhile, Hegseth has purged Black and female officers from military leadership. This is one story, not two.

The UN recently voted 123-3 to declare chattel slavery the gravest crime against humanity. The US voted no. This is what they're protecting and why.

Virginia's 2026 legislature passed bills stripping Confederate tax exemptions, ending rebel license plates, and removing statues from Capitol Square. The Lost Cause infrastructure was built piece by p...

Pete Hegseth has turned the Pentagon into a sanctuary for Christian nationalism—and the theology of his mentor, Lost Cause apologist Doug Wilson, is now shaping how commanders explain an actual war, d...