Blake Maddux
“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”
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The alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician was slowed down during the COVID years — but now he is back.
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“The hardest part of the book for me to write was the conclusion. It’s a very dark book. I didn’t want to write a dark conclusion, but I also didn’t want to be Pollyannaish about it.”
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“A lot of books talk about slavery as something that just happened in the South and ended in 1865. I felt like there could be a book about how the North was making more of the profit and was in some ways more responsible morally, politically, and financially than the South.”
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A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.
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An interview with veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan, who just dropped “Backstage & Beyond: Volume 2: 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats & Rants” in October.
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Lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Liz Stokes talked about the making of The Beths’s most recent album, why the band isn’t called The Lizzes, and if fans can expect to ever hear her play trumpet.
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A conversation with author Stephen Vladeck who has been called out publicly by Justice Samuel Alito for his criticism of the Supreme Court’s abuse of the shadow docket.
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This month has seen the publication of two new versions of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning: a revised edition, which is slated for adaptation by Netflix, and a graphic history, which was illustrated by Joel Christian Gill.
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Author Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”
“The book in many ways is a defense of liberalism. It’s a defense of the idea that that’s really what the government should do in a democracy. The liberal consensus is what happens when you actually let people vote.”
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