1. Fundraising email from Mike Pence on Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as candidate for vice president of the United States, as reported in The New York Times (August 14): “This is YOUR country, not THEIRS.” This is the ruling social fact of life in the United States today. Everything else takes meaning from this fact, or fails to.
Los Angeles Review of Books, August 28, 2020
GreilMarcus.net 
Why does Steve Weinstein – and by extension presumably Greil Marcus – assume that “a young black fan of folk music” wouldn’t have anything to learn from “groundbreaking Black thinkers, poets, musicians, storytellers, and activists, past and present”?
where are the Greil Marcus books playlists? We were promised they would be posted back in mid-august 2020.