History is fluid. People are not inert. Our people have the right to demand that the names of any historical figure be erased from our streets.
[T]here is is clearly no risk that one will suffer amnesia if statues are removed, no risk of erasing the collective memory of swaths of history integral to a people’s identity.
Must we wait for Obama’s arrival in Senegal to be the most democratic, cleanest, safest country?
The early retirement ... looks like punishment for a spy skilled in the worst methods of torture and deserving of the International Criminal Court.