Clay Coppedge
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Unsafe at Any Rate or How I Moved To Austin
The first car I bought after I left home was a 1961 Corvair station wagon, the car that Ralph Nader wrote about in Unsafe at Any Speed....
Frank Browning
Jul 24, 20186 min read
Sartre, Spinoza ... and Cruising at the Café de Flore
I was 21 and eager to experience the Paris of my intellectual heroes. In some ways, I got more than I asked for. May '69. Hardly a year...
Bill Bentley
Jul 20, 20181 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / Haiku Reviews: Best of 2018 (First Half)
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lubbock to Downey Electric dustbowls To Disneyland and beyond Two troubadours soar Nicki Bluhm, To...
David Talbot
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Talbot / Left Wing of the Possible
"I'm a radical...(But) I want to be on the left wing of the possible." That's how activist-author Michael Harrington, co-founder of the...
Bill Bentley
Jul 19, 201811 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / July 2018
Joseph Arthur & Peter Buck, Arthur Buck. Rock and roll needs rebels like Saturn needs rings. It's how things are supposed to be, even...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jul 12, 20187 min read
Ventura at 4AM / THIS USA: Origins
Each sluggish turn of the world has such disinherited to whom belongs neither what’s been nor what’s coming next. Rainer Maria Rilke, The...
David Talbot
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Talbot / The New Democratic Party?
The most exciting, most encouraging political development in America today is, without a doubt, the wave of new energy in the left wing...