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The Conflicted Politics of Folk Music

Oct 19 2021
By Ross Cole, author of The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political ImaginationIf you’ve ever watched Werner Herzog’s brilliant but harrowing film Grizzly Man, you might recall the closing song––‘Coyotes’ performed by Don Edwards. It emerges just after Herzog’s parting comment that footage
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What Fascist Lies Teach Us About Current Politics: A Virtual Conversation with Federico Finchelstein

Apr 29 2020
Why are the lies fascists tell so significant to their political power? Federico Finchelstein, a world-renowned historian and Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, unpacks the answer in his new book A Brief History of Fascist Lies.Finchelstein joined
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