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For this Holiday Season
In the backyard of the home where I grew up, just a short walk from one of the many bayous in Moss Point, stands an old evergreen live oak tree.
 • Eddie
Another Mass Shooting
The country is broken, and it isn’t Donald Trump’s fault.
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A Call to Kill
Andrew Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Points USA, recently posted this on X: “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegesth makes me want another narco…
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The Problem and the Whip
I can’t get out of my head this formulation from Frederick Douglass.
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No Ideological Labels
I taught a course this semester on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ella Baker.
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The Witching Hour
I sat down today to write something substantive about the failures of our politics.
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A Clash of Values
The other day I was in the Charleston airport, and one of the TSA supervisors, who I talk with every time I travel there, said that he is trying to keep…
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To Make Ourselves More Efficient For Good
Later this month, with the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy series, I will publish two co-edited volumes with Jan Stievermann of Heidelberg University…
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Lies and Suffering
I am finding it increasingly difficult, if not damn near impossible, to have civil conversation about difficult topics these days, and in light of…
 • Eddie
Love of America? Which one?
Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans described the “No Kings” protest marches as “Hate America rallies” made up of the radical left wing of the…
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A Hope and A Prayer
I actually sat down and wrote a different post for this week, but my spirit told me I had not written the right words.
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The Corrupted Soul of America
As I spent some time over the weekend in Moss Point tending to my mom and enjoying family, the horrific images out of Chicago intruded.
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