The Re-Segregation of U.S. Schools?

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court made the re-segregation of U.S. public schools a strong possibility. Maddeningly, it did so in language drawn from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, which outlawed school segregation and overturned the earlier Plessy v....

Tragedy at Virginia Tech

By now everyone knows about the tragedy at Virginia Technical University in Blacksburg, Va., where, on Monday, a student shot 32 people before killing himself. I have not immediately blogged on this because I wanted to digest it. Although the United States seems...