James T. Roane
October 2016Critics Page
Courting the End of the World: Heeding James Baldwin's Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality
In a country where morality is too often collapsed into safety—not the protection from physical harm, not the insurance of a basic standard of life, but the false safety that is stability for markets and profitability—James Baldwin summons to us from beyond the grave to boldly practice a dangerous morality.