Jonathan Bernstein

by Jonathan Bernstein ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A superb biography of a singular life. A biography of a troubadour’s triumph over major challenges and against considerable odds before succumbing to the time bomb within. Before Justin Townes Earle emerged as a... See more

Responding to tragedy in song is an age-old American tradition. From slave spirituals to civil rights-era protest songs to the YG and Kendrick Lamar songs that soundtracked the last decade of Black Lives Matter protests, musicians across genres tend to re... See more

Candidates, Cleverness, and Polls Covering some of what's going on. There’s too much! Gonna churn out three unrelated points today: Special elections and candidate decisions, the #CleverFallacy, and the initial polling on Venezuela. I’ll start with electi... See more

Venezuela and Other Trump Misadventures Plus all the links So…I did up a quick item on Friday to put up with links from over the last couple of weeks and figured I’d run it Sunday morning. Well, that didn’t work out as I expected. Instead of junking it, I... See more

In 2017, the narrator in country hitmaker Chris Janson’s song “Fix a Drink” seemed exhausted by party politics. “I turn on Fox News and then CNN/But it’s the same dang thing all over again,” Janson sings in the bouncy pop-country tune, looking for a way o... See more