Music, media, and the institutions that shape how we see the world
Train is one of the most unfairly dismissed bands in modern rock history. They committed the unforgivable sin of making people happy without apology, and the rock establishment has never forgiven them for it. But here's the truth: Train writes damn good songs, and if you can't admit that "Drops of Jupiter" is a masterpiece, you're lying to yourself.
Read More →Have you ever really listened to NPR? Not just had it on in the background while you're driving your Forester to Whole Foods, but actually paid attention to the names? There's a pattern here. A very specific, very deliberate pattern that nobody wants to talk about. NPR has an unwritten rule: If your name is Brad, forget it. You're not getting hired.
Read More →The King of All Media has become the most boring man in radio. Howard Stern has transformed into exactly the kind of self-absorbed, repetitive, celebrity-obsessed bore that 1990s Howard would have eviscerated on air. He's become everything he once stood against—and that's the real tragedy.
Read More →The American church has forfeited its moral authority through its capitulation to political power, its silence in the face of extrajudicial killings, and its complicity in policies that devastate the poor. When the church chooses power over principle, it ceases to be the church at all.
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