Entirely too much attention has been paid this year to the 50th anniversary of the 1967 “Summer of Love.” That’s when a small fraction of America’s white youth...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
Revolution Come… Revolution Go Gov’t Mule (Fantasy Records, 2017). Gov’t Mule started recording this album on election night in November 2016. According to the...
“From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things...
13th, the documentary by Selma director Ava DuVernay about mass incarceration, was screened for the first time just days before the 2016 presidential election...
Putting aside, for a moment, the election of a reality TV star as president of the United States, history may ultimately judge that the most significant...
The tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries about American political campaigns is a long and mostly honorable one. It starts in 1960 with Primary, which...
The statute of limitations has long since expired on the crimes that caused the global economic collapse of 2008, and there never was any public accounting...
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” In the movie Spotlight, those words, spoken almost in passing by a victims’...
A couple of years ago, Washington Post religion writer Michelle Boorstein wondered, “Is Jim Gaffigan technically employed by the Roman Catholic Church?” Her...
The release of Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free was as much of a mainstream media event as one can expect in this age of audience fragmentation. The...
