American folk singer (1919-2014)
The Fayetteville Observer sought John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s expert analysis of the factors shaping 2014 elections in North Carolina. The Greensboro News & Record and Lumberton Robesonian published…
The “pulled quote” you see to the right is featured in Arlo Guthrie’s full-page tribute to the late Pete Seeger in the latest issue of TIME magazine. It’s unfortunate that…
Andrew Ferguson writes in The Weekly Standard about the president’s curious choices to lead “the federal government’s egghead agencies—the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the…
The American left has always hated the suburbs. Why so many people would leave a grimy, dysfunctional urban landscape for grass and trees has always baffled liberal elites. Malvena Reynolds’…
Those wacky Canadians are covering over historical murals in the British Columbia legislative building because “some people find the colonial depictions of aboriginal people to be offensive.” Seems the murals,…
But then, when isn’t it? But tonight it really is, since it’s a paean to far-left, Stalin-loving, Comintern lacky Pete Seeger. The local WUNC announcer bemoans the fact that for…
OK, my youth is flashing before my eyes. I guess that’s what WUNC-TV and PBS intend for people in my demographic when they hold these fund-raising evenings. I just watched…
I was just watching the WUNC-TV beg-a-thon featuring Peter Paul and Mary and was reminded why I didn’t like them back in the day. Their style always seemed preachy and…
An enviro nut says everything in this column except “WE WERE WRONG!” about nuclear energy. Worse, he engages in revisionist history by criticizing unnamed others for using “China Syndrome” and…
Turns out it’s not so evil. And it’s not a recent, nor an American, phenomenon, according to Glenn Reynolds’ review of Robert Bruegmann’s new book, Sprawl: A Compact History. I…
Summer, I don’t know a Moby from an M&M, but I do know a Pete Seeger from a Bruce Springsteen. Speaking of which, a great piece in City Journal traces…