Above and beyond publishing journal articles, credentialing young people and producing spectacles on the court, the field and the gridiron, the job of a university is to keep the books. Less visible ...

There's a nonsensical incantation in Vance Randolph's 1947 book "Ozark Magic and Folklore." An old woman near Conway told Randolph the "charm" was guaranteed to drive off witches. She learned it from ...