This is the third entry in a Hamilton trilogy I didn’t realize I was working on until now. For my thoughts on the show itself, click here. For my thoughts on how Hamilton works with and around race, click here. It’s been about two years since Hamilton made its way from stage to cast album. As a young person, I guessed… Read More Hamilton Lived, Hamilton Died, and the Story’s Still Being Told
Matt and I finally get down to business to complete a band draft, an idea that’s been near to our heart but far from our podcast for some time now. Taking the helm of four bands apiece – with names from many styles, from Wu-Tang to pirates – we create a positive festival chock full… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 28: The Spicy and the Honeys
Depending on who you are, Donald Trump proved his seriousness as a candidate as long ago as last summer, although I think many of us came to it later than that. For me, it was back in February when Donald Trump handily won the Republican primary in South Carolina. My thoughts on what signaled the… Read More Re: Unraveling the Trump Phenomenon
It’s Sunday. Let’s begin with a parable. Paul de Man was one of the foremost deconstructionists of the 1960s and ’70s, a friend of Jacques Derrida’s and a partner in tearing down the traditional bulwarks of philosophy. De Man died of old age in 1983, only about a year before Foucault succumbed to AIDS-related complications.… Read More Let’s Stop Defending Trump, Please
We may have known, thanks to pundits and pollsters, that Donald Trump would win South Carolina’s Republican primary, and perhaps handily. It doesn’t make the night of and the days immediately after feel any less like a movie. One of the best scenes in Malcolm X, for my money, is the one where Malcolm stands… Read More Unraveling the Trump Phenomenon
Seeing Things Secondhand 