Liberalism
Randy Sandke and the critics, continued
Soon after my first post on Randy Sandke’s book Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet, Ethan Iverson posted a far more detailed two-part critique (here and here) at Do the Math. As always with Ethan, it’s a must-read. He’s also announced that he’ll be publishing a guest post by Sandke in reply. At the risk of spending too
Randy Sandke’s book and its critics (including me)
There’s been some heated discussion since Howard Mandel published his thumbs-down review of Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randy Sandke. I’ve remained mum, largely because I edited the review. It appeared in December in JJA News. Sandke is a talented trumpeter and composer as well as an
Defending liberalism
Jonathan Cohn of TNR offers a brief history of contemporary liberalism and how “liberal” became a dirty word. The subject couldn’t be more relevant, as this piece by Rick Perlstein shows. There’s much talk right now about supposed Democratic zeal to “defund” the troops; Perlstein discusses how politicians like Hillary Clinton, deathly afraid of the accusation, are doing their best