Opinion

Does the name of something change its meaning?

Have you ever heard the question “What’s in a name?” When people ask that, it is often meant ...

Opinion

The things we do for friends, and to find ourselves

I entered the Bargain Barn with great trepidation. It had been a long while since I had jumped ...

Opinion

Repurposing and recycling things left behind

In the door pocket of my car is a much folded and unfolded map of Lafayette County. With ...

Opinion

Taking moment for my wife and a Pony

These days it’s rare we experience magic. Or possibly, with the constant bombardment and immediate access to info ...

Opinion

How is the NCAA vs. Ole Miss like Mueller vs. Trump?

Steven Godfrey’s excellent May 30 piece in SBNation, “Crooked Letters,” is an even-handed analysis of the NCAA’s gross ...

Opinion

On things remembered and forgotten

Some gossamer memory recently unleashed a veritable flood of questions. For some reason, the question of the cars ...

Opinion

A Texas taco hunt with some crawfish on the side

My toes pushed hard off the running board of our SUV, sweat dripping from my forehead, as I ...

Opinion

Hasn’t mankind already killed enough Jews?

On the few occasions when Iran has taken a break from chanting “death to America,” it tells the ...

Columns

Summer hunger and how you can help

Today, the EAGLE ran a story about food insecurity in Lafayette County, after a study released by Feeding ...

Opinion

Dialing for dollars in The Swamp

It is estimated that Hillary Rodham Clinton spent $2 billion in her failed bid for the presidency. Money ...

Opinion

Mississippi Teacher Corps a great option for would-be teachers

When my daughter was ready to graduate from Ole Miss with her bachelor’s degree in English, she mentioned ...

Opinion

To mothers, with utmost love

By Melvin Arrington In a homily delivered more than half a century ago Josemaria Escriva, the founder of ...

Opinion

For Mother’s Day, embracing our lost sense of humor

You’ve lost your sense of humor, and you need to get it back!” Such was the admonishment my ...

Opinion

Brave new worlds without gender definitions

If my memory serves — and it often doesn’t — the first time I heard “post” used other ...

Opinion

Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime

Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia ...

Columns

To the Graduates – a reflection

Graduation season has descended on the LOU Community, and Ole Miss is kicking it off. There are plenty ...

Opinion

Scum, scam and the appropriate places to use them

Times, they are a’changing! What with all the talk these days about words that are not to be ...

Opinion

The growing art of American cursing

By Tom Purcell Get this: the average American can’t get through the day without cursing. So is the ...

Opinion

Saved by Coltrane and a go cup

We arose early, dashing about the house giddy with enthusiasm for the anticipated events of the day. We ...

Opinion

Black Robe Fever

Lawyers with active practices in the federal system are familiar with “black robe fever.” It’s a virulent disease ...

Opinion

Counting our heads is easier said than done

By Charlie Mitchell Americans, it’s time to stand up and be counted … or not. The year 2020 ...

Opinion

The Constitutional work-around for term limits

By Michael Shannon I’ve always wondered why the National Education Association (NEA) and the country club conservatives in ...

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