I’m taking a pause from political writing and commentary and spending more time on music with The Desert Mothers, a rotating cast of great players and singers who’ve worked with people like Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, and now and then, to my huge good luck, me. The latest Desert Mothers song is “Jailbreak.” Find it on Spotify, Apple Music, and elsewhere here. More on my music here.
About a year ago, I started publishing draft chapters of my book in progress, The Liberal Backbone, as episodes of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast, at Substack, and on YouTube. It hit me lately that the draft is done – I … [Continue reading] about The True Crisis
Before I focused on communication and politics, I was a songwriter and producer for Warner-Chappell Music and others. I still make music now and then, and the latest song is "Outside in the Rain," by the Desert Mothers. You can listen here and find … [Continue reading] about Outside in the Rain
(Find the full post and podcast at Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good.) Ever since I published my book Patriots of Two Nations in 2020, I’ve been working on another one — a much bigger one, as it’s turned out. And I’m still … [Continue reading] about The Liberal Backbone
Ernest Hemingway is famous for the terse economy of his writing. And in one of the most resonant examples of that quality, he captured the essence of catastrophic failure in just a few words, in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The alcoholic … [Continue reading] about Slowly and then all at once