In Medias Res

Of course there's a "national conversation" taking place over guns; is there ever not in America, no matter what the most rec...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] Caroline Fraser's wonderful Prairie Fires is many things. Primarily it's a biography of L...

For the second time--and not for the last--my memories of the pop music world of 1978 are shaped in part by the detritus of progressive rock...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] This year my employer, Friends University , a non-denomination Christian liberal arts college in Wich...

" Night Fever ," released today in 1978, was the sixth and final single released--four of which had been written by the Bee Gees--...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of 'Mormonism'; [it is designed] to rev...

Forty years ago today, the first single from Gerry Rafferty brilliant--and criminally forgotten among even many serious pop listeners--album...

[ The Wichita Eagle ran a shortened version of this argument this morning; he's my fuller piece. And yes, I've already handicapped...

This week, 40 years ago, "Dust in the Wind," the second single released from Kansas's fifth studio album, Point of Know Retur...

[Long, and of interest to only three people. You've been warned.] Donald Trump has been President of the United States for a year. He ...