The recent controversy over country singer Luke Combs’s surprise hit cover obscures the deeper history of Chapman and her cultural movement in powerful ways.
1970s
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today’s political reaction.
When Americans said no to self-sacrifice, and a President.
In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […]
1994—it wasn’t that long ago. Or was it? It was a time before iPhones, YouTube, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, […]