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Book Review: “Six Amendments” — Is U.S. Constitutional Change in the Air?

June 5, 2014
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Retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens’ book Six Amendments is unlikely to restore any of the love lost between him and the GOP.

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Book Review: “Liberty’s First Crisis” — Oddballs to the Rescue

March 31, 2016
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Liberty’s First Crisis presents reminders that elected officials have always been capable of uncivilized behavior toward their colleagues.

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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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Music Interview: Jesse Colin Young and His Boston Roots

May 17, 2018
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Jesse Colin Young’s best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.

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Rock Interview: Singer-Songwriter Tommy Keene — Bringing “Excitement At Your Feet”

July 16, 2014
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The under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.

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Music Interview: Chatting With Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook

October 1, 2022
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“I remember playing the Rathskeller. I think that was the second gig we had in the US. I remember what a dive that was. I remember how really exciting it was to be there. Just the promise, the potential.”

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Fuse CD Review: The Old Ceremony – Not Just Cool By Association

July 25, 2015
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None of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony’s music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one’s own.

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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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Author Interview: Jared Ross Hardesty on “Slavery in New England” — More Pervasive Than You Thought

February 3, 2020
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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”

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Music Interview: Andrew Grant Jackson on 1965, Music’s ‘Annus Mirabilis’

April 21, 2015
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1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.

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