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Hundreds of pages before Coke Stevenson, the governor of Texas, first sets one boot in front of the other, on a dusty, deserted street in Alice, Texas, walking toward the gunslingers that he believed rustled the 1948 Senate election for Lyndon Johnson, he had already been transformed into legend. His apotheosis occurred the moment Robert Caro raised the curtain on him. The scene is pitch black, in the “vast and empty Hill Country,” utterly desolate except for a campfire, around which there sits a teenager... Читать дальше...

Last week’s Supreme Court decisions on guns and abortion further widen the separation between the United States and its peer nations. We are becoming a more backward nation. There will be economic consequences.

It’s been 15 years this spring since Wilco released their sixth album, Sky Blue Sky. So that means it’s been 15 years this spring since music critic Rob Mitchum unleashed the term “dad-rock” upon the world. In his review of the alt-country legends’ album for Pitchfork, Mitchum wrote that it was “an album of unapologetic straightforwardness, [that] nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise.” And with that, a roast was born.