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 a civil-rights investigation into the college for it.
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 academic freedom now come with a federal deadline attached.
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, and automatic distribution—the machinery of access.
The Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act on April 29. By nightfall, Florida had a new congressional map. Mississippi had scheduled its special session before the opinion was written. The racism wasn't created by Callais—it was waiting for permission.
Kenneth P. Ruscio '76 has been named as the interim president to replace the departing William Dudley. A solid, interim choice, but hard work remains.
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 indoctrination.
