The Top Protest Songs

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Mike

The Nation is conducting a survey of the top protest songs of all time.  If you want to tell them your choice, go here.  And here are the choices of one of The Nation editors along with the choices of some people he surveyed.  Some of those mentioned are Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” Sinead O’Connor’s [...]

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Obama the Conservative?

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Mike

When I was voting for President Obama in 2008, I felt that at least he was a moderate–but with some possibility that he had liberal tendencies.  Obviously, for a liberal like me, he was better than Bush.  And I thought he had more of a chance to support liberal causes than did Hillary Clinton.  The [...]

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Bob Dylan’s Missed Chance in China

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Mike

It’s been a long, long time since Bob Dylan has had any credibility as a singer of protest songs.  His one-time reputation as the figurehead of protest is long gone.  (To be fair to Dylan, he may never have wanted the reputation of being considered as the voice of the 1960’s civil rights and anti-war [...]

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