Caruso Brown: The history teacher
“You can open most any book and read a history of Charlottesville and not get a sense of the African-American presence. Then you hear the oral histories about the thriving […]
Ecology of mind: UVA symposium aims to revive the interdisciplinary thinking of Gregory Bateson
“It takes two to know one.” One of the many riddles that Gregory Bateson–the anthropologist, philosopher, biologist, psychologist, and high priest of cybernetics–left behind when he died of respiratory disease […]
Hiromi Johnson passes on an ancient Chinese martial arts tradition one student at a time
There are times as a journalist that you know you’re not going to get the story. You’re going to get a story, but you’re not going to get the story. […]
Portraits of war: Elliott Woods wants Americans to look their returning veterans in the eye
Elliott Woods grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the son of a Navy doctor. He attended a prestigious Catholic boys’ school in Bethesda, a Washington, D.C. suburb dotted with exclusive country […]