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Author Interview: Robert A. Gross on “The Transcendentalists and Their World”

December 10, 2021
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“Concord was actually surprisingly representative of Massachusetts, New England, and maybe even the North in the 19th century. In learning about Concord, you learn about the making of modern America.”

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Author Interview: “Of Thee I Sing” — Ben Railton on the Cycles of American Patriotism

July 27, 2021
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“If you are more critical or try to highlight some of the worst things that happen in America, then you are un-American or anti-American.”

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Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

July 7, 2021
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The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.

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Music Interview: Juliana Hatfield Talks About “Blood”

May 14, 2021
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In her new album, Juliana Hatfield’s concerns are comeuppance, self-abasement, and the depravity of those who revel in the power to make decisions that can adversely affect others.

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Music Interview: Rickie Lee Jones on her Memoir and Living in the Present Tense

May 11, 2021
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“Then, as now, my focus was on the songs. As long as you can keep your focus on the art that you’re doing, the larger thing it can serve – selling records or whatever – that’ll happen on its own.”

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Music Interview: Guitarist and Singer-Songwriter Richard Thompson on His Memoir, “Beeswing”

April 16, 2021
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“I really thought that I could sustain a life in music, but perhaps I’d end up in Las Vegas backing Tom Jones or something.”

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Author Interview: Kevin Mattson on a Genuine Culture War — Punks versus Reagan

March 20, 2021
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The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.

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Author Interview: Talking to Jamal Greene about How Our Demand for Rights Went So Wrong

March 17, 2021
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“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”

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Book Interview: Talking to BrownMark about “Life in the Purple Kingdom”

September 19, 2020
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Front and center in this memoir are BrownMark’s efforts to reconcile his resentment and gratitude toward the man who both sold him short and afforded him the “opportunity of a lifetime.”

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Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest

July 9, 2020
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.

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