once more trump/nixon

The latest of this on-going history.  Yours truly is here...

trump nixon again

The first interview about the next book

The first and hopefully not the last discussion of the forthcoming book, We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America.  Appropriately on a podcast dealing with 1980s pop culture.  You can listen here (I come in after a beginning segment):

The 80its

Alaska finally...

Evidence: 

Punk Rock Research now takes fruit...

I've been in the archives a long time now.  What I link to here is an article that I wrote for The Sixties Journal.  It's about Detroit as the geographical root for punk during the long sixties (and it's a long piece).  Presently, I'm revising the book about 1980s punk...  For now check this out: Leather Jackets for Flowers...

a good read

Yours truly has a piece in this recent book (about Bernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama).  But I post this because it's also a really smart book of essays.  Who would have thought that a bunch of intellectual historians could produce such a fine collection?  Check it out:  American Labyrinth