Keeping Up with the Jones
The sad legacy of 9/11
We recently observed the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. How time flies. It’s a good time to reflect. A decade later, can we really say we’ve “won” anything?
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Weiner’s wiener and other crazy, freaky tales
I don’t want anybody to get me wrong — I like (no, love) a little raciness. What red-blooded American boy doesn’t?
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Two centuries of black Louisville
A few weeks ago, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer did something strange. He hosted a book launch event at City Hall. I met Mayor Fischer for the first time last year during the primary season.
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Cornel West ‘worries about’ Al Sharpton. Should you?
As I prepare to leave the University of Louisville until 2012, I’m finishing up one of the most enjoyable instructional years I’ve had in recent memory.
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The Outlaw Phillip Bailey
I like outlaws. Not the commonly encountered criminals — drug dealers, thieves, murderers, most politicians and many preachers.
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Sleeping with the enemy: Freeway Ricky Ross
On Thursday, my community partner LeBron Seay and I are bringing former drug trafficker “Freeway” Ricky Ross to speak in Louisville.
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Hooray for happy thoughts
I recently watched the cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 award-winning novel “The Road.” How could I go wrong with this flick?
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Knee-deep in America’s political breeding program
I’m currently re-reading one of the greatest treatises on government, leadership, control and power ever written.
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What Democrats can learn
In 2008, the Republican Party was pronounced all but dead. The party had taken years of hits from all sides.
