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.
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, one movement is telling us exactly who they are.
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. Trump's Justice Department has decided the Klan had a point.
Washington and Lee's presidential profile is more serious than expected, but its emphasis on civility reveals a load-bearing contradiction.
