[The next post in the Memorial Day-inspired series, on a much more contemporary and controversial American soldier. Plenty of room in the series for your suggestions, and/or guest posts!]

Why we must remember the contradictions at the heart of the identity and story of perhaps our most famous contemp… Read full post »

In the bridge of Bruce Springsteen’s “Long Walk Home” (2007), a beautiful if bleak assessment of American identity at the end of the Bush era, the speaker remembers what his father used to tell him about their home town and nation, an idealistic perspective that culminates in the li… Read full post »