Robin Meyers

Sometimes the painful truth about the human condition comes in through the back door, or seeps into the national psyche like water into a basement. We can’t see where it comes from, but the results are obvious. We’d rather not believe it, but the sump pump has to run all night just to keep the […]

Everyone has been asking me what I think of Jeremiah Wright now. And to be honest, I’m disappointed. He had a chance to use his moment in the media spotlight to explain both the black church, about which white America is woefully ignorant, and the risky but important business of prophetic preaching in a church […]

Is there a double standard when it comes to hate speech? What’s the difference between Sally Kern’s anti-gay tirade and Jeremiah Wright’s anti-America tirade? Kern compared gays to terrorists and cancer; Wright said, “God damn America,” blamed whites for a conspiracy to facilitate black drug use and fill up private prisons, and even suggested that […]

When someone recorded Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, making vile, homophobic comments, she thought no one would hear them but the hard-core faithful. Now it’s another national embarrassment for Oklahoma. Her defense is almost as ludicrous as her tactics are shameful: that she is entitled to her opinion and that any and all anti-gay rhetoric […]

By the time you read this, it will all be settled. Oklahoma City will have either continued the national trend of subsidizing the construction or renovation of sports venues through tax dollars by passing “MAPS for Millionaires,” or struck a needed populist blow against it, inspiring others to “just say no.” I predict, alas, that […]

The wisdom of the “Tao Te Ching” captures the chaos and the energy of this remarkable political season: When you think you know, that is when you do not know. But when you know that you do not know, that is when you know. Pollsters and pundits beware. All the high-tech touch-screen maps and scientific […]

The year was 1931, and Oklahoma City University was about to make history in a way long forgotten ” until now. Wiley College of Marshall, Texas, a small black liberal arts college established by the United Methodist Church, was on its way to winning the 1935 national debate championship ” against the long odds of […]

Mitt Romney is running for president, and the Christian right runs the country. The result is that a Mormon felt compelled to make a speech in which he pretended to defend the separation of church and state, and the freedom of religion. What he was doing, in fact, was pandering to a crucial voting block […]

  Arguments ad nauseam over who is number one in football, and why the Bowl Championship Series is the Great Satan have overshadowed a much more important debate in Oklahoma about what kind of state we really live in, and why we refuse to add “sexual orientation” to our hate-crime laws. It took the murder […]

There are plenty of things to be worried about these days, but few of them are as frightening as what is happening in Pakistan. Right after Sept. 11, 2001, when President George W. Bush saddled up to fight the war on terror and “smoke out” Osama bin Laden, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is […]