Joe Engel died last week. It’s unlikely you will know the name, especially if you don’t live in Charleston, S.C., his hometown since 1949. Joe never wrote […]
Author: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Elon Musk’s new toy
For Christmas one year, my folks got my kid brother a tank. This thing could roll across the floor, the turret turned and it made battle sounds. […]
A few words on post-election silence
A few words on the silence. As you doubtless recall, many of us regarded last week’s midterm election with existential dread. The path from there to the […]
The infuriating charge of ‘racism against white people’
Sometimes I wish white people could be Black. Not forever, mind you. Maybe for just a few weeks like John Howard Griffin, the author of “Black Like […]
The Caucacity of Nope
Let us apologize in advance to Barack Obama, who once wrote a book called “The Audacity of Hope.” You see, our subject today is what might be […]
We strive toward enlightenment … and language follows suit
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Pitts’ column contains language some readers may find offensive. He intentionally uses this language to illustrate how far we’ve come since such words and […]
DeSantis, a secessionist of convenience
We’re all in this thing together. Or so we like to say. But Ron DeSantis’ hypocrisy just punched a hole through that ideal. In 2013, when Hurricane […]
Are we really different from them?
We are different from them. Instinctively, that’s what you’re thinking, right? Not that you don’t have reason. The news out of Iran that a 22-year-old woman named […]
What do the book banners fear?
There are a few things you should be asking yourself right about now. Meaning you students who find yourselves living in places where self-appointed guardians of public […]
America in winter
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, […]
