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Author: C.W. Cannon

Monumental decision: Who should be honored in place of the Confederates?

July 21, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
We should have the courage to acknowledge more of our history than what’s safe and cuddly and good for tourism.

A letter to the next Dylann Roof

June 26, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Sure you've been screwed, white boy, but it wasn't by black people.

Politics of passing: Rachel Dolezal would have had an easier time of it in old New Orleans

June 18, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Did a socially established white person ever assume a black identity, long-term, in the era before Rachel Dolezal? Apparently Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's lover did just that.

If Jindal’s anti-gay order reflects Southern ‘values,’ New Orleans has seceded from the region

May 29, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
There's the Old South and then there's the Other South. Revulsion over Jindal's coded bigotry places New Orleans in the latter camp.

Shabby chic gives way to merely chic: How come? It’s the economy, stupid

April 7, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
In reality, much of the trumpeted social healing of our ancient problems amounts to little more than optics, the columnist argues.

‘A David Duke without the baggage’ finds himself with a load to carry anyway

January 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Memo to the GOP: "You can't go to the well again and again and then claim the water's toxic."

‘The night they drove Old Dixie’ … back up: reflections on Landrieu’s demise

December 12, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
The triumph of the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" can finally be called complete.

Is debunking our obsession with what’s hip about New Orleans just the latest way to seem hip?

October 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
A Tulane conference contends that playing up what's unique about New Orleans has a way of masking what's wrong. The columnist doesn't buy it.

Cutting to the core of Jindal’s flip-flop on aligning schools with national standards

September 10, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
"Jindal has offered his hand to a Stepford wife, a conservative suburbanite, a Mrs. Brady."

Call me a sentimental old fool, but I miss my Schwegmann’s — and I got a right to

August 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
The more I hear about how terrible the city was before the storm, the more I remember its unterrible charms.

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