North Carolina State University’s Harrelson Hall, a cylindrical, UFO-looking building at alma mater featuring a winding, spiral ramp leading students to windowless classrooms, jars as an oddity. At best, the math classes taught in that building induced marathon study sessions….

Castelvetro di Modena, Italy On May 14th a star failed to come out. Tom Wolfe passed away that day. With his passing the conservative movement lost its greatest social critic, and America lost one of its greatest novelists. As a…