Archive for March, 2009
The President of Flow… and the end of Hip Hop?
What if “My President is black” is a reset button, marking the end of a cultural era? Just talking here again about the hip hop pulse of Obama Nation. Tricia Rose says the President of Flow will be (surely ought to be) the death of commercial hip hop… of the last decade’s giant stars like …
Obama as Gorbachev: a Regime in Crisis
Three ways to think about the global crisis: China's winning. It's about everything. What if Obama is "our Gorbachev"?
Obama & Hip Hop: The Transracial Drumbeat
The rhythm track of Barack Obama's rise was laid down by 30 years of hip hop music and culture, argues the literary critic Adam Bradley. Rap is the half-hidden key to Obama's trans-racial "flow."
Fred Kaplan on the Neo-Cons: Daytime Dreamers
Fred Kaplan, Slate's "War Stories" columnist, details the "few, grand" neo-conservative ideas that "wrecked American power."
Blindspot: Lepore and Kamensky in Olde Boston
"Blindspot," the novel, is a racy, historically realistic tale of sex and slavery in Boston, of all places, in the 1760s. It's also an argument by Jill Kamensky and Jill Lepore about how to tell the truth about our past.
