So in my series of posts on rap, I’ve tried be somewhat complimentary before laying out the critiques, fair and balanced, appreciative of a few of the classics , etc . . . . . . and then here comes Shay Riley of the black center-right site Booker Rising, who answers the above question as . . . . Continue Reading »
The sociologists next door to my office were talking kinda loudly about race/class/gender, race/class/gender, etc., and I just had to get some other sounds goin’ in my head. Via you-tube surfin’ I learned, lo and behold, that on October 10, last year, THE MOST ROMANTIC RECORD EVER, . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m sad and lonely in not being able to join our Carl, our Ralph, and two semi-modern women in LA this week. So I thought I’d post the conclusion to my TRUE GRIT study as compensation: We have to think hard about Mattie as a modern woman: She’s all about lawfulness, mathematical . . . . Continue Reading »
This week I am appropriately traveling to Hollywood, a town that owes its fortune to the Western more than to any other genre, for the Western Political Science Association meeting, where I will be presenting a paper titled “Cowboys and Corpses: The Moral Perils of the State of Nature in the . . . . Continue Reading »
On another of Glenn Reynolds’ ingenious ideas . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
Again, apologies for this getting put on hold a while . . . Martha Bayles wrote Hole in our Soul in 1994, but most of the key elements of the rap story were in place by that point. That is, as we saw in the previous post , critics admit that rap’s “golden age” was over by then, and . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I’m stuck with any nunber of real deadlines right now, and so I can’t devote my attention as much as I should to either POP CULTURE or BLOGGING. 2. I’m completely PRO-CHOICE on whether conservatives should be attuned to pop culture. I would say it’s a harmless vice, one . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Powerline, an interesting post and a more interesting thread on whether conservatives can close the “Pop Culture Gap.” One guy even laments that the Republicans blew by not taking the book South Park Conservatives to heart! So, apparently the day of vindication of Paul Cantor , . . . . Continue Reading »
After speaking of the HBO series Girls and its brilliant stupidity, I received nothing but remarks about how following that show must be indicative of deep depravity on my part—even though I called the show crap in my title. In my post, I took the show seriously because I think what is not . . . . Continue Reading »
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