Johnny & Rosanne Cash (credit: TakeBackCountry.com) WNYC-FM seems to have a knack for producing some of the...
Mideast Peace
Tabu Ley Rochereau is one of the great engines of Congolese soukous music. He was there at...
I must’ve first heard this song sometime in college in the early 1970s. It struck me as...
In the course of researching one of my blog posts, I came to the NextBook site which...
(credit: Pasarmalambesar.nl) I was first introduced to slack key guitar by a Hawaiian music show on KCRW-FM...
David Brooks, the New York Times’s supposed “compassionate conservative” columnist has written yet another dubious, twisted and...
Elvis Costello’s cover of Van Morrison’s Full Force Gale (hear it) is simply a tour de force...
“A lobby is like a night flower; It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.”...
In the late 1940s, Dick Blakeslee, then a student at the University of Chicago, wrote Passing Through,...
(credit: Janusz Kapusta/NYT) I’ve been waiting to hear from Tariq Ramadan, the Muslim scholar denied entry by...
Larry Franklin (credit: Maariv International) Since I wrote my first post about the alleged Pentagon spy case,...
Crooked Timber has graciously linked and trackbacked my last post about Daniel Pipes’ intellectual vendetta against Tariq...
