Jim Rutenberg has an interesting article in today’s New York Times (Web Offers Hefty Voice to Critics...
Gasparyan playing the ancient duduk (credit: Michael Brook Breakdown) In 1998, Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook collaborated...
My answer is a decided, even shouted “NO!” The impetus for this post is Mark Glaser’s Open...
As if we needed any more proof, an October 23rd AP article (U.S. makes inroads vs. Iraq...
I attended a party in Berkeley in the early 1990s and someone played Ottopasuuna’s eponymous (1991) record....
Songhai was a world music fusion group active in the 1980s and 1990s consisting of Malian kora-player...
I’ve just discovered the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review and it’s full of terribly useful articles regarding...
Some portions of the American Catholic Church are truly losing their way in this election campaign. As...
Why Martin Peretz Doesn’t Like Presidents Who Are Honest Brokers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Why Martin Peretz Doesn’t Like Presidents Who Are Honest Brokers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
If you ever wanted to read a tired old American Jewish apologia for Ariel Sharon’s right-wing policies,...
I’m really teed off at David Kirkpatrick, who wrote Speaking in the Tongue of Evangelicals. The New...
You’ve got to watch David Brooks, the ‘reasonable conservative’ New York Times columnist. Because if you don’t,...
Jeff Jarvis, in BuzzMachine asks the provocative and slightly misleading question Would you go to jail for...
