Ending Safety as a Writer and a Reader

The basic rationale behind this project

When I started The End of Safety, I was hoping to name it based on some phrase in James Baldwin’s great essay, “The White Man’s Guilt.” The first time I read that essay, and every time since, I have been drawn to Baldwin’s description of “those who imagine that history flatters them” as being “impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin” thereby …