“To understand the world you have to understand a place like Mississippi,” William Faulkner famously said. His words came to mind late last month as student leaders at the University of Mississippi won their battle to have the state flag, which features a Confederate Battle Flag emblem, removed from the campus flagpole. University students in […]

Eric Thomas Weber
Dr. Eric Thomas Weber is associate professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi and author of Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South (2015).