Sublime

On June 18, 1974, my twenty-first birthday, I was sworn in as a police officer for the City of Colorado Springs, the first black to graduate from the ranks of the Police Cadet program.

Walter White, himself a novelist as well as a leading official with the NAACP, expressed both admiration and regret that he had not thought of the title first.

as I sat there soaking up the living history of my youth from one of the persons who shaped it, I felt honored; yet I couldn’t help but think that by sharing this moment with him I was vicariously experiencing a bit of Dr. King himself. In essence, I was channeling Dr. King through Dr. Abernathy, who had shared virtually every adult-life experience

The paper that, for over four years, feverishly likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler was unabashedly pro-Hitler in the Thirties, serving as a sturdy fount of Dr. Goebbels’s propaganda (“reporting,” just as his newspapers did, that Poland invaded Germany on Sept. 1, 1939). The paper that, for twenty years, has made Vladimir Putin out to be a second

At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.

With its publication Wilson became, as Frederick Jackson Turner saw it, “the first southern scholar of adequate training and power who has dealt with American history as a whole.” Other reviewers shared Turner’s admiration for Wilson’s history, yet they couldn’t help but notice the author’s fondness for the Ku Klux Klan, an organization whose missi