Arundhati Roy on How MLK Is Remembered

Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and…

Unodious Comparisons

Make the most and best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.  –Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, The Life of…