In the early 1990s, America was obsessed with violent inner-city crime, especially if it was committed by young Black men. The crack cocaine epidemic was...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
Cowboy Carter Beyoncé (Columbia Records, 2024) Beyoncé is one of the few artists in popular music today who makes albums that aim for the heft and significance...
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote that capitalism, with its “[c]onstant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social...
Who’d have thought that Oppenheimer—a sprawling, three-hour-long, demanding, and often disturbing movie about the physicist behind the first atom bomb—could...
On the surface, the Catholic Church can seem downright staid and stuffy. Our ministers wear antique ceremonial garb and sometimes chant in a style that hasn’t...
In August 2019, the New York Times Magazine ran “The 1619 Project,” marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in the British colonies...
Old Time Folks Lee Bains and The Glory Fires (Don Giovanni Records, 2022) The day this fourth album from our greatest left-wing Southern punk-rock band...
Author Wendell Berry famously lives in Henry County, Kentucky, which went for presidential nominee Donald Trump by a 46 percent margin in 2020. Still, Berry...
