Editor’s Note: The following piece, Michael Brendan Dougherty’s discussion of artists in society, is the third installment of a two-week series recalling ten of the best contributions to Doublethink. This...
It should have been cold out. It was December, in Columbia, South Carolina, the home of the game cocks, and I stood there, waiting for Barack Obama to speak. He’d...
Last month, the cultural myth-busters at The Smoking Gun revealed that platinum selling R’n’B artist Akon had never been the “ringleader of a notorious car theft operation,” never [run] four...
Sam Francis came to Washington as one of the bright young minds of the New Right in the late 1970s, anxious to help the conservative movement defeat communism abroad and...
Just over twelve years ago, Rudy Giuliani’s thin frame hung over Madison Square Garden. In 1994 he had combed over hair and often wore glasses. He wasn’t “America’s Mayor.” He...
Religious faith holds a certain honor in American society. Institutions deemed religious are exempt from taxation. Discrimination based on religious affiliation is prohibited. Long held statutes do not oblige priests...
