Tom-landess

Tom Landess is a contributing editor to Chronicles. A former English professor, he is the author of numerous books, a few of which have appeared under his name.
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Articles and Posts by Tom-landess:

• Race and Racism: A Brief History(0)

  Today, many Americans presume that the debate over slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries turned on the question of race. Though race was an ingredient in the Great Debate, it was no more than a pinch of salt. Both proponents and opponents of slavery tended to hold the same view of blacks.

• Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, R.I.P.(15)

  When Popcorn Sutton died in mid-March at the age of 62, the national press ran obituaries. Though he was just an old moonshiner who’d plied his trade for half a century and done nothing else of consequence, a whole bunch of folks in Tennessee and North Carolina grieved more than they would have over the death of a military hero, movie star, or ex-president.

• The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion(0)

  Public figures talk about globalization as if it were the Rapture. We are told that, unlike Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, we live in an era of international trade; so these days, we must worry more about what the world thinks and does. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told the Southern Center for International Studies, “No institution of government can afford any longer to ignore the rest of the world. One-third of our gross domestic product is internationally derived.”