Celebrating the writer and Atlantic columnist on the tenth anniversary of his death

More than 50 years later, the Southern Baptist preacher’s words resonate—even outside of America.

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.

In the mid-1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed thousands of former slaves, some of whom claimed the president came to their plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free.

A scholar of classical warfare sees real-world parallels to the Dragon Queen’s rain of fire in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones.