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Biking Berlin, Walking Watkins Glen

I Am Not a “Pussy” and Never Was

Remembering Artists From Another Time: Andy Warhol

Ritual, Power and the Weekend Arena

Human Origins Destroys Core Fascist Mythology

What Do the World Cup and Iran Deal Have in Common?

My AI Comrade

Juneteenth: The Day America Solved Racism by Taking A Day Off From Work

Buying a Reputation

Homage to Cockburn and Vidal

From Hitler’s Olympics to Trump’s World Cup

The Mirror of Neolithic Art: How Çatalhöyük Confronts the Hubris of the Modernist Perspective

“Can I Be Frank?” is the Most Important Show in New York Right Now

On Seeing Will Self Again

Emperor of Iceland, Titan of the Tutu

Unfamiliar: the New World of Espionage

My Discovery of Howl!

Ginsberg at 100

Pentecostal Epic and Opera

Remembering Artists From Another Time: John Piper

The Zany Survival of “The Physicists” Spoofs the Atomic Era and More

It’s All About Image: Declining American Symbolic Power

Up and Out on Ascension

Haydn’s “Sun” Quartets Light up Berlin

Fred Anderson, North American Writer

Long Live New Orleans and All of the Beauty Out There Like Her

Bach and Bitcoin

Darkology and the Deep Roots of American Racism: A Conversation with Rhae Lynn Barnes

On Chuck Klosterman’s “Football”

Alexandre Dumas and His Revolutionary Novel “The Count of Monte Cristo”

Sound History

The Invisible Forest

The Etymology of 420

NATO Yes, EU No:  Euro-Turkish Music in Berlin

Venice Restored