It is sweet and glorious to die for shag carpet
"Louisiana can once again sun itself in the intellectual power of its state’s representatives."
Author: Leo Lindner
Poverty is policy and so is crime
If the real intention is to fight crime, we should consider slapping a macho chokehold on poverty. It might give a lot of people the chance to breathe.
A prudent proposal to save Louisiana’s petrochemical industry
I am a supreme thinker.
The irony of ‘Law and Order’
Voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer said, "Black people know what white people mean when they say law and order."
Militias: a dangerous symptom of the right’s national romanticism
Militias are symptoms of a more profound problem: Many Americans can’t come to terms with the horrors and hypocrisy that seeded the foundations of this country.
Implications of the American Dream
"If there is a concept that’s at the core of American ideology, the American Dream is it, and its logic makes it easy for us to disregard poverty and incarceration as outcomes that only the worst of us reap."
On oil, death and taxes
"A significant portion of Louisiana’s political class has manned the barricades for the oil industry, and if successful their actions will blow a hole in the state budget that will probably have to be filled by cuts to higher education and sales tax hikes and will nudge our state closer to bankruptcy."
Grappling with meaning, 10 years after Macondo
Ten years after the the devastation of BP's Deepwater Horizon platform, survivor Leo Lindner writes on the loss of his friends, misconceptions of the disaster, and the mistake of putting profits over people.
