Category Archives: Freedom of Speech

In today’s Wall Street Journal, there is a piece by Joseph Epstein called “In Praise of Shopkeepers“.  It compares the shopping districts of Evanston, Illinois and the Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville. Evanston, according to the writer, now caters to “the transient class”, featuring Starbucks, Burger King, and The Gap.  Andersonville, on the other hand, hasContinue reading “Shopkeepers a Key to Healthy Communities”

Several people have asked about the Folk Revival that I mentioned in my blog on Monday. I’m really not an expert but I’m willing to share my very basic understanding of it with you. The great Folk Revival of the 1960s really begins in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Most historians tie it toContinue reading “John Koerner and the Folk Revival”