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Greg Nagy: 21st Century Bluezoid Man

The blues tradition has been always slow to evolve, which is one of its charms in that it ...

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Death of a Monkee: Davy Jones, RIP

But today, there is no day or night Today, there is no dark or light Today, there is no bl...

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Springsteen’s Charity Bawl

I love Bruce Springsteen's music, and admire him as a human being (albeit with reservation...

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Appreciating the 1970s Culture: Thoughts on the Passing of Brother Don Cornelius

If ever there was a decade I’d enjoy being stuck in forever it’d be the 1970s. Waterga...

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Hemingway in Perspective

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 by Paul Hendrickson...

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Straw Dogs 2011 a Liberal Screed

Why would you remake Straw Dogs? The question enticed me to the local multiplex last weeke...

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Here Comes the Night, Second Installment

The tube station lights flickered in a flourescent dance among the faces of those waiting ...

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Amy – Whatcha Gonna Do?

And so it has come to pass that Amy Winehouse has joined the 27 Club. Other members incl...

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Web Freedom Is Slavery—to Big-Government Advocate

Review of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You, by Eli Pariser, Penguin...

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‘True Grit’ a Worthy Reimagining

By Bruce Edward Walker Although Joel and Ethan Coen's version of True Grit suffers from...

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Scrooge’s Conversion from Coerced Government Charity

By Bruce Edward Walker "Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, fo...

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Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, RIP

The growl, the rasp, the Dada-esque lyrics, the music that ping-ponged between primal blue...

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Can Culture Generate Spontaneous Order?

By Bruce Edward Walker Review of Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous O...

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Secular Waste Lands and Hollow Men

Joseph Epstein’s essay, “T.S. Eliot and the Demise of the Literary Culture,” in the ...

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Mitch Albom’s Stupak Stupor

By Bruce Edward Walker In his Parade article Sunday, "Mr. Smith Flees Washington," Mi...

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Captain Fantastic and the Master of Space and Time Unite

By Bruce Edward Walker The Union, a collaboration between Sir Elton John and one of h...

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Waters’ ‘Wall’ Doesn’t Hold Up

By Bruce Edward Walker Roger Waters’ performance of the Pink Floyd chestnut The Wall la...

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FCC Report: Shot With Its Own Gun

By Bruce Edward Walker File under duh! The Federal Communications Commission Broadband ...

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California Seeks to Alleviate Debt With Internet Sales Tax

And if California slides into the ocean/like the mystics and statistics say it will/I pr...

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Forty Years of Drooling, and They Put You on the Graveyard Shift

By Bruce Edward Walker 1970 was a pivotal year for rock music. By the time it entered i...

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Is Google Obama’s Halliburton?

I'm not prone to spreading conspiracy theories, but the recent story referenced in the pos...

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George M. Cohan: America’s Cheerleader

July is a time for patriotism in the United States, and much very good music has been writ...

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Reissued ‘Exile’ Brings It All Back Home

Imagine finding a manuscript of unpublished poems by Dylan Thomas 40 years after he compos...

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Arts Subsidies Are Unnecessary When Low-Rent Neighborhoods Are Abundant

The Huffington Post reports that the high priestess of punk and poetry, Patti Smith, recom...

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‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Fails to Reinvent

H.P. Lovecraft—perhaps even more than Edgar Allen Poe—has been the guiding light of ...

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Reading the Culture Wrong—Again

Can you discern a nation's spirit, even its economic genius, from the literature it produc...

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A Convenient Deceit

In commemoration of Earth Day, here is my analysis of the Academy Award-winning Al Gore mo...