Tag: America

• Cursed weapons (August 31, 2025)

  In A Haunting Relic From America’s Past, Wright Thompson describes his encounter with the Army-issued pistol that was used to beat and murder 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. Thompson located the gun while writing a book about the context and legacy of that murder. Subsequently, the person who had inherited it—a local crop duster—donated it to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, where it just went on permanent display.

• MLK 2021 (January 18, 2021)

  The rise in Black American voices, year by year, shifts and widens the message-legacy of MLK. I think it helps me understand the historical Jesus a little better.

• Responding to bad-faith questions (November 12, 2020)

  Sometimes there really is just one suitable reply.

• How I’ll empathize with Trump supporters (November 7, 2020)

  It depends on which kind you mean.

• You don’t need to drink the whole beer (September 5, 2020)

  I have discovered a new way to (not) drink (all of the) beer