H. Brandt Ayers
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In their opinion: Guice Potter, a remembrance
It is with a deep stab of grief that I write this final tribute to a lifelong friend whom I selfishly hoped to outlive, thus avoiding the pain. → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Horace the mule
We had stopped for gas at the small, north Georgia town of Greensboro. A headline on page 4 of the local weekly, The Herald-Journal, caught my eye, “Story About Horace → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: The power of nostalgia
As the great Christian celebration approaches, the clouds in an old man’s head roll back, revealing sharply defined pictures of the ritual re-enactment of the night before Christmas. → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Trump's nation
Republicans applauded as President Donald Trump pulled away from our traditional role as leader of the free world, striking an arrogant pose of mighty America needing no friends and tweeting → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: The GOP feels no pain
The narrative for the paperback edition of my memoir due out this spring takes readers through the final four years of the Obama administration up to the first few months → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Fish die from the top
There is a man with a biblical first name in the northern part of the county who has been a regular correspondent over the decades, taking me to task for → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Moore, a man obsessed
Predictions two weeks ago that, if elected to the U.S. Senate, Roy Moore would embarrass Alabama, were premature. But now how he has. From coast to coast, the media is → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Apostle of hate seeks love
Glenn Beck, the fiery-eyed, right-wing commentator, was once so out of control that he accused a sitting Democratic president of treason and regularly ate liberals alive on his radio and → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: GOP surrenders to radicals
The Grand Old Party, a Republican bulwark against extremist excesses from the left, is surrendering to an extreme right-wing, racially tinged nationalism from within, sponsored by Donald Trump himself and → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Roy Moore will shame Alabama
There is one certain outcome of the Alabama Senate race if Roy Moore is elected. He will be compelled to embarrass Alabama because of a set of personal religious beliefs → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: President throws a tantrum
Last week was a tough one for the president. The failure of his team to deliver repeal-and-replace Obamacare combined with criticism of Puerto Rican mayors about a lack of food, → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Talking us into war
Syngman Rhee, a Princeton and Harvard-educated South Korean politician, rose to lead a decimated post-World War II South Korea through the Korean War and, with an iron fist, installed a → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Doug Jones can win
It can happen, even in Alabama, a Democrat, Doug Jones, can win if he does not run against “Super Christian” Roy Moore, if his campaign is pitched mainly at the → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: How Doug Jones can win
It can happen, even in Alabama, a Democrat, Doug Jones, can win if he does not run against “Super Christian” Roy Moore, if his campaign is pitched mainly at the → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Vietnam War ... What if?
Ken Burns’ heart-breaking, frustrating documentary re-enactment of the Vietnam War reminds me that the year I graduated from the University of Alabama in 1959, Viet Minh forces began filtering south → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Letter to an old friend
Dear Hillary: I am eager to read your latest book. The New York Times’ review convinced me that you have written it in your own, natural voice, not in the cautious campaign style, but a free-flowing, sharp and funny real you. I will publish this letter in The Star next Sunday, proud to disclose to the majority of our readers who voted against you what I think of you, and as solace to the many,… → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: President historians 60, Trump 0
My determination not to write another piece this week about the fool in the White House folded in the face of six presidential historians who formed a firing squad aimed → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: There were giants in Washington
In the decade after World War II ended in 1945, when Donald Trump was a little rich boy growing up in Queens, there were giants in Washington each of whom → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Beyond the twilight zone, AI
Having recently joined an outward-looking stock advisory group, last night I dreamt that my advisors had whisked me past the twilight zone, past Tier Zero into the realm of Deep → Read More
H. Brandt Ayers: Trump breaches moral line
In the far southwest corner of the West Wing of the White House is an oval office, the center of our nation’s moral authority that has beamed a light of → Read More