Author: Dr. Ed

Brown University Betrayed History and Donors

Rudolf Haffenreffer Jr. (1874-1954) was a successful beer magnate during the era of regional breweries, including Narragansett, which was once the dominant brand throughout New England. In 1903, he purchased 376 acres of oceanfront land in Rhode Island, which happened to be where “King Phillip’s War” had both started in 1675 and ended in 1676 […]

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From Booker T. to MAGA: The Populist Challenge to Higher Education’s Elite Vision

WEB Dubois is a hero of the academic left because he adopted Marxism in his latter days—battling with the FBI, joining the Communist Party in 1961, and then emigrating to Ghana, where he died in 1963. But what is often forgotten is the earlier great debate he had with Booker T. Washington in the latter […]

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