Culture Watch

The high cost of corporate radio.

Philip Morris is the public face of American tobacco.

Barry Moser 3-01-2003

I have just begun reading Donna Tartt's new novel The Little Friend...

Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2003

One of the many and fruitful exaggerations in Yann Martel's Life of Pi is the assertion, made by a minor character, that Pi's story will "make you believe in God."

Judy Coode 3-01-2003

It's likely that the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with Gypsies, homosexuals, and others considered ethnically or socially deficient) is the most well-documented...

As this is written, rescue workers are still separating the bodies from the bamboo after the terrorist bombing of a nightclub in Bali.

Nathan Wilson 1-01-2003

Thomas Patterson says that the juice has been squeezed out of elections for Americans...

Marshela Salgado 1-01-2003

More than 30 years into his career, nine Grammys, and dozens of tours, 55-year-old Carlos Santana's music continues to evolve, and he's bringing another generation along for the ride.

Diana Ortiz 1-01-2003

Sister Dianna Ortiz was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan security forces in November 1989 while serving as a missionary there.

Molly Marsh 1-01-2003
An interview with Chris Hedges on our love affair with war.
1-01-2003

The first time I played Waterdeep's new album for my housemates, they were up and dancing within seconds.

Bill Mallonee 1-01-2003

What are my favorite things for listening to, watching, and perusing? Well...

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2003

Filmmaker Michael Moore loves to pick at the sores of America's self-delusions, and he's really good at it.

Jesus, Jazz, and Justice

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2002

Bruce Springsteen dives straight into the pain…and the ambiguity.

The Editors 11-01-2002

Alcatraz is Not an Island is a powerful documentary (which airs Nov. 7 on PBS)

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 11-01-2002

When this book was published, the Committee to Protect Journalists had just named the West Bank as "the worst place to be a journalist." 

Andrea Jeyaveeran 11-01-2002

I don't usually read memoirs. There are just so many of them out there, and the whole genre seems to have become self-indulgent or uninspired.

Mark Lewis Taylor 11-01-2002

Since Sept. 11, country music stations have blared songs like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." and Aaron Tippin's "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly"

The Editors 11-01-2002

The Gathering of Spirits, by Carrie Newcomer.