A steady hand for the transition
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.
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W&L
Veneration is not history
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.
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Honor, integrity, and civility
Washington and Lee's presidential profile is more serious than expected, but its emphasis on civility reveals a load-bearing contradiction.
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The museum isn't built yet. The excuses are
Washington and Lee's motto means "not unmindful of the future." Seven years into a commitment to honest historical interpretation, the university is building a museum while simultaneously writing a policy that its own faculty say contradicts everything the museum is supposed to stand for.
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Thoughts on the next president
As Washington and Lee undertakes this critical search, we must articulate the qualities needed to lead the university through necessary evolution while preserving what makes it genuinely excellent.
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The General's Redoubt weighs in again
In an article his blog, The Patron Saint of Superheroes, Professor Chris Gavalar breaks down the latest missive from that lot.
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Learning to love the hard truths
What happens when we sanitize our most difficult histories? A powerful essay about Oklahoma offers lessons for struggling with painful pasts.
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UPDATE: University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
After a much publicized feud with Harvard University, The New York Times reported on June 26, 2025, that Trump has no turned his attention to the University of Virginia.
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A bit of history
A brief explanation of why I'm doing this and why it's a matter of the University's history.
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