Culture | Thursday, June 12,2003

Strange Weather Lately

The author recalls two "country boys from Middle America"--Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln--in a lecture presented at the Mark Twain House.

The following was adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. It originally appeared in the Chicago-based political magazine In These Times.

Culture | Tuesday, May 6,2003

We aren’t the world

American culture is not dominating the globe

By Charles Paul Freund

In the mid-1990s, French filmmaker Claude Berri warned that without protection from the products of the American media, "European culture is finished." He had plenty of pessimistic company. French Cul

Culture | Tuesday, April 29,2003

Paranoid pop

Music and modernization in the Arab world

By Charles Paul Freund

"Chechnya! Afghanistan! Palestine! Southern Lebanon! The Golan Heights! And now Iraq, too? And now Iraq, too? It's too much for people. Shame on you! Enough, enough, enough!" Are those angry words