January 18, 2008

The Prophet Reconsidered

By CHRISTOPHER PHELPS

40 years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., new studies emphasize his economic and social philosophy

We forget so much. We forget that he was hanging by a thread in 1968 at the time of his death, whose 40th anniversary we will mark in April. We forget that his moral authority had frayed, leaving his fund raising in free fall. We forget that in his final years, he faced not only a rising "white backlash" — the media term for white obduracy in the suburbs and

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