by Alexander H. Jones | May 17, 2021 | Politics |
The bill passed by North Carolina legislators to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” represents the most overt effort at ideological indoctrination in the recent history of public education. Ideology is a system of thinking applied on a sustained...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 12, 2021 | Politics
If the 2010 Republican wave reoriented North Carolina politics in conservatives’ favor, Roy Cooper’s election in 2016 came as desperately needed relief for the progressive opposition. Progressives had experienced the intervening years as a natural...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 5, 2021 | Politics |
Happenings at the University of North Carolina have always been intertwined with the civic life of our state. Chapel Hill is not an ivory tower, as generations of critics have inadvertently recognized. In that spirit I condemn the vandalism targeted at Carolina...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 4, 2021 | Politics |
It’s remarkable now, but Pat McCrory once won elections with ease. For 14 years as Charlotte mayor, the Republican cruised through general elections in what was gradually becoming a Democratic city. He was popular and considered a choice prospect for governor in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 22, 2021 | Politics |
The days of America’s old socially conservative consensus are gone. In place of the evangelical, patriarchal synthesis that ruled American culture for much of the Reagan era has emerged a new and decidedly tolerant ethos manifested in broad support for LGBTQ...
