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How Bob Dylan Fought the Proto-Woke January 14, 2025
The American birthright entails both the freedom and often times the necessity of making yourself up from scratch. Many of America’s most famous heroes were self-made men, from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. The same is true...
The Death and Life of Bohemia January 13, 2025
I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in the Village, not realizing that it was, at that point, largely a fake neighborhood—NYU kids and the wealthy. Enacting the cliché in full, I would write in my journal in Washington Square and do l...
Bob Dylan’s Famous Moment in 'A Complete Unknown' January 07, 2025
It’s easy to make the mistake that a key scene in A Complete Unknown, the new biopic about Bob Dylan’s early career, involved a mere disagreement about style and instrumentation. The scene depicts the famous moment at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival w...
