Dateline: Jim Curtis
Articles: 21
In The Big Scheme of Things, my life has been devoted to bringing together high culture and popular culture. I have a Ph.D. in Russian from Columbia University, and was professor of Russian at the University of Missouri for a long time. I've written five feature screenplays, one of which is currently under option, and a book on rock and roll. At the moment I'm writing a book on Bob Dylan.
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Dylan has changed in the last 50 years, but it’s not at all clear that the journalists who write about him have changed.
For the birthers Washington is a sundown town--a town that excludes blacks
Rachel Polonsky takes us on an unforgettable trip through some important places in Russian history
Those who want to hold onto money and power by dividing the world up into good guys and bad buys are having a hard time.
The appearance of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and Barbra Streisand on the Grammys was more than an exercise in nostalgia.
The national unity that may follow the shootings in Tucson threatens the livelihood of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin.
Ordinariness is precisely the point of the lesbian marriage in The Kids Are All Right.
Republican disunity will help to insure Obama's re-election.
Bob Dylan's legacy liberated Bruce Springsteen's creative genius.
The billionaire Koch brothers are using the Tea Partiers for their own purposes.
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