“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up. [read post]

  Rick Hills recently related his experience of eating in a former slave market, and questions the lack of slavery landmarks in the U.S., Anyone who has read Walter Johnson’s searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau… Slavery’s physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th[e] realm of public history… There is something… [read post]