Watching History Burn

Cheering its demise is shortsighted, to say the least.

I opened up my phone on Friday afternoon to see a photo from a friend who lives in Louisiana. He was documenting the destruction of the largest surviving antebellum plantation in the U.S. South. It’s currently (as I write this) burning to the ground. What was once beautiful and devastating, covered in the sweat and tears of the slaves who worked it, is …