If the music industry put as much effort into being fair to their customers as they put into taking their money, everyone could participate in the rocking world.
Commentary
Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals
Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
Rock Feature: Roger Daltrey of The Who — How Can He Afford to Tour?
If there is any theme that runs throughout the story of Roger Daltrey’s life as he tells it, it’s that he has always needed more money to – as he so folksily puts it – “pay the bills.”
Book Commentary: “Dying of Whiteness” — What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Kansas to be Born?
Class pressures are exerting themselves, class fault-lines are emerging, and ancient demons are being released as a result.
Book Interview: Jay Wexler on the State of “Our Non-Christian Nation”
The book deals with how Atheists, Wiccans, Summums, Muslims, and Satanists “fought to have their voices heard” in communities dominated by Christians and others who were skeptical of their claim that the First Amendment applies equally to all religions.
Arts Commentary: 2019-20 Classical Music Preview
I’ve compiled a list of twelve concerts (or concert series) that I think will stand among the future season’s highlights.
Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth
20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness
Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology
Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.
Book Commentary: “Portnoy’s Complaint” at 50
Doctor, do you understand what I was up against? My wang was all I really had that I could call my own…
Media Commentary: Walter Lippmann and the Need for Reliable News
99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
