I’ve always regarded the world’s religions as cultural products, by which I mean artifacts of human inventiveness. As such, religions bear the characteristics of the cultures that created them and the ...

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Let’s have a heart to Hart Ave. conversation. This short street just off North Clinton Ave. near the Locust Hill African Cemetery faces major challenges. First, the street dead ends near an ...

In December 2024, the Orleans Parish School Board discussed the mid-school-year closure of the Arthur School, a charter school designed to deliver classical education opportunities to Black young men.

War has always been part of my life. Born at the end of World War II, my early school years encompassed the Korean War, where 35,000 American service members lost their lives. We had a brief break in ...

Louisiana has long been one of the most dangerous places in America to be a woman. Domestic violence here is not just common — but far too often lethal; and the systems meant to protect victims ...

Credibility is not a lifetime appointment. It is earned through accuracy, honesty and reliability. When those are missing, past titles and reputation are not enough. For years, Jim Jones has relied on ...

The NCAA thought lawsuits over NIL was a problem. It thought eligibility lawsuits were a problem. Then came Davis vs NCAA, and the governing body for college sports learned its troubles run much ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/Rich Pedroncelli/AP/jim young/Reuters Has any Trump ...

Higher ed is sitting on mountains of data about student finances, program costs, enrollment and recruitment, student behavior, retention, graduation rates, and more. But institutions don’t know what ...

“I came to see if words are still an effective method of communication,” Japanese writer and political activist Yukio Mishima said during a famous political debate at the University of Tokyo in 1969.