Forget ‘reaching out.’ It’s time to acquaint Trump’s America with ‘New Orleans values.’
Author Archives: C.W. Cannon
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Whole-house rentals got you down? Get hip to ‘creative disruption’!
Maybe an absentee landlord will let me rent my former home on weekdays.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Something in common? Trump, Jackson Square, and ‘The Walking Dead’
Giving the finger to social and political elites.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
GOP vows to ‘take America back’ — but race tension, cop killings suggest we’re already there
Why and when the Party of Lincoln stopped struggling to right the wrongs of racism.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Trumpistas, Brexitistas and hipsters: shared anxiety about class identity
Our skill parsing gender and racial bigotry has blinded us to a deeper and equally destructive bias.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Old Hickory axed from $20 bill; so is it time to rename Jackson Square?
Harriet Tubman is a fine choice for the $20 bill, but don’t lump Jackson with the Confederates.
Posted inOpinion
New Orleans is the prime ingredient in Beyoncé’s viral video ‘hot sauce’
Her viral video is rife with mythic images of the city, some nuanced, some merely cheap shots.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Politically incorrect? You bet! But let’s not mince words about terrorism’s U.S. kin
On closer inspection, radical Islam has more than a little in common with our homegrown brand of right-wing fundamentalism.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Bidding adieu to the Vieux Carré as we once knew and loved it
Rich retirees from Dallas now enjoy the sanitized ambience of a neighborhood New Orleanians used to live in.
Posted inOpinion
Old problems persist, but it’s absurd to deny improvements since Katrina
The disaster narrative that national observers are habituated to look for has blinded them to a lot of what’s going on in our schools …