Tag Archives: Poetry and Popular Culture

Not Dead Yet: A Reply To The New Yorker’s essay, ‘Does Journalism Have a Future?’

By Victor D. Infante

It’s an odd day when you wake up to discover that the newspaper for which you work is being held up nationally as an exemplar of the rise and fall of local journalism, but there I … Continue reading

In the Theater of Truth and Consequences: Speech, Responsibility and the Omnipresence of Cynicism

By Victor D. Infante There are any number of places to begin, but let’s start with the image of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, smiling as he informs the world that illegal immigrants would be separated from their children. “If you … Continue reading

‘Everybody’s Had to Fight to be Free’: Tom Petty, Symbolism, Empathy and America

By Victor D. Infante Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon Honey, it don’t make … Continue reading