Orders From The Dead: A Testament Of Tragedy
This Diamanda Galás song is a meditation on the after-effects of nationalist fascism, how its enforcers run their campaigns of hate-filled purity over the bodies […]
Smithereens Justice: An American Nightmare
How is the current progressive movement behind the call for blasting all offensive monuments different from the Taliban blasting the stone Buddhas in Afghanistan? […]
What Have You Found?
Music! True, powerful religion […]
The Traps Of Cultural Appropriation
The idea of cultural appropriation — as it operates — is a problem, an extreme for an extreme […]
The New Censorship: Not An Option
Where does it stop? How many authors and artists and other figureheads must fall before the madness subsides? […]
The New Censorship: Defacement
Most of history doesn’t fit in with the present. That much we can agree on. But we can’t rewrite everything to suit the […]
Claiming One’s Destiny
‘That the Indians were you!’ […]
Croatian National Football And Genocidal Regimes
Always good to see the French beating crypto-Nazis. Vive la Resistance! For those of you wondering what the hell I’m doing mixing politics and sports […]
So Far, So Good … Behind The Mirror
This early Megadeth album served as one of the major inspirations for Xavier’s psyche and state of mind in Behind The Mirror (2015) […]
Action And Words
Today I learned a new phrase […]