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by | Mar 11, 2022

Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s talented sister, died Thursday morning at her home in Austin, Texas. A post on Willie’s Instagram…

by | Feb 8, 2022

I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?  – Beck, “Loser,” 1994  Bite my lip and close my…

by | Feb 8, 2022

The saga of podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan and the music/audio platform Spotify took a predictably nasty turn last week. There…

by | Apr 20, 2021

If you want to witness real courage by performance artists taking on systemic injustice, look not west to Hollywood but…

by | Jan 11, 2021

The world can be a harsh place. People die every second of every minute of the day, many in unjust,…

by | Nov 3, 2020

Election Day! A great day, and often a brutal one. What can we do about it? Libby commented on my…

by | Aug 10, 2020

Sometimes the historical moment can be caught precisely and economically by music. (And other times not. See a long list…

by | Aug 9, 2020

A few lifetimes ago — meaning a few months ago — when cramming into a diner on a Sunday morning…

by | Aug 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic controls the airwaves and the minds of millions of Americans, one resilient community is coming together…

by | May 13, 2020

In his flagship work, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom writes, “It is in the nature of democracy…

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