Not long after that, the new e-publishing company called Byliner, with a small staff and a spacious office in San Francisco's Presidio, published original works by National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann (sending him to Japan to write about life...

Next: A real education policy would look at the massive endowments and tax dollars that go to college sports rather than college education. I’m on board with Taylor Branch and the big-time college sports abolitionists. But policies don’t “look at” things.

We crafted the term student-athlete, Byers wrote, and soon it was embedded in all NCAA rules and interpretations. As detailed in his lengthy analysis The Shame of College Sports in the October, 2011 issue of The Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize author Taylor...

The shame Branch referred to was the barely concealed reality of improper payments to student athletes, an inevitable consequence of a culture in which the athletes helped generate huge profits but were denied a fair share in the name of an amateur...

Peter, Minn. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian is noted for his biography of Dr. King, along with his trilogy of books that document the civil rights era. He said several myths about the civil rights movement still persist, including the idea that...

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