Guns: The power of illusion and the illusion of power
As the body count mounts in America’s war on itself, the attention focuses on its various component actors, maladies and instrumentalities. There’s the focus on …
Gone Fishin’
By JAMES H. SWAIN I’ve been blessed and highly favored. Daddy has been around for as long as I can remember. He turned 94 this …
First they came
By JAMES SWAIN In his speeches containing the “First they came …” moralism, Pastor Martin Niemoller bemoaned the cowardice of German intellectuals during the Nazis’ …
Preserving Black History: We’ve got the whole world in our hands
By James Swain This month we are called upon to look back on the history of black Americans and, consequently, more broadly, to review the …
U.S.A. proves daily that we still need black history month
Once again, the public discourse is dealing with questions about the necessity, relevance and utility of celebrating Black History Month. Most recently, the august and …
A New Paradigm
The cold blooded, premeditated murders of nine people attending Bible study at the Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina was a …
A conversation about the conversation
Correction: This Column, published in last week’s edition was authored by James H. Swain In recent months, from crisis to crisis, incident to incident, there’s been lots …
A conversation about the conversation
In recent months, from crisis to crisis, incident to incident, there’s been lots of talk about the need to have a conversation about race. But frankly, I’m not …