Selected and Categorized Articles from David Masciotra’s Archive. More available at PopMatters, True/Slant, Relevant, and in a variety of other publications.
Arts & Culture
Kid Rock, Progressive Hero: Why He’s Right to Charge $20 Per Ticket – The Atlantic: April 22, 2012 Where’s The Faith? Try Crime Novels – The Daily Beast: March 10, 2013 Queen of Disco: The Legend of Sylvester – PopMatters: February 13, 2013 Getting Away With Murder: A Conversation with Warren Haynes – PopMatters: January 9, 2013 David Foster Wallace: The Postmodern Traditionalist – The Daily Beast: November 2, 2012 Into the Noir Mystic: A Conversation about Injustice, Evil, and Redemption with James Lee Burke - Los Angeles Review of Books: September 9, 2012 The Love of Light: Gore Vidal, 1925 – 2012 – PopMatters: August 22, 2012
What Happened to Romance and Joy in Music? - PopMatters: August 14, 2012
Searching For The Meaning of Life: A Massive Norwegian Memoir Hits American Shores - The Millions: July 16, 2012
Caped Crusaders and The Flight From Society – Front Porch Republic: July 11, 2012
Remedial Reader: The Essential Richard Russo – The Daily Beast: June 20, 2012
The Drummer Who Could Make You Cry, Levon Helm – The Daily Beast: April 19, 2012
Revisiting ‘The Bodyguard’: A Romantic Blockbuster for Adults – PopMatters: March 15, 2012
Real Life Intensity: A Conversation with Warren Haynes – PopMatters: February 22, 2012
As The Spirit Moves Mary: The Life and Art of Mary J. Blige – PopMatters: December 9, 2011
All That We Learned About Livin’: John Mellencamp’s Legacy – PopMatters: November 16, 2011
We Piss Anywhere: Sympathy for Mick Jagger – PopMatters: September 12, 2011
The Human Collision: A Conversation with Matt Nathanson – PopMatters: August 10, 2011
Adult Education: Living and Learning at a Hall and Oates Show – PopMatters: July 7, 2011
Drop The Needle and Pray: Clarence Clemons, 1942 – 2011 – PopMatters: July 1, 2011
The Gospel of Manhood: Keith Richards, Ernest Hemingway, and Finding the Good – Blurt: June 28, 2011
The Ferocious Morality of David Foster Wallace – PopMatters: April 20, 2011
Timely Resurgence: A Conversation with Daryl Hall - Glide Magazine: January 6, 2011
Jim Harrison: Code of the Rural Hero – The Daily Yonder: June 18, 2010
Friday Night Lights: Rural Mojo on TV – The Daily Yonder: May 14, 2010
Destroy Your iPod - True/Slant: March 22, 2010
Flying Alone: Edward Hopper and America’s Night Side – PopMatters: June 13, 2008
Sex
Mark Sanford, Romantic Hero – The Atlantic: May 8, 2013 Why So Few Use Condoms – The Atlantic: April 29, 2013 The Real Problem With Hooking Up: Bad Sex – The Atlantic: April 1, 2013 The Way You Do The Things You Do: Sex Education and Smokey Robinson – PopMatters: September 18, 2012 Get a Leg Up: The Power of Angelina Jolie’s Pose – PopMatters: March 14, 2012
Selling Sex: The Media, Fantasy, and How I Fell in Love with Britney Spears- PopMatters: May 10, 2011
We’ve Got Tonight: Love and Sex According to the Bob Seger Manual – Glide Magazine: January 25, 2011
Straight Hair, Flat Culture: Fear and Loathing of Black Sexuality – The Black Commentator: July 1, 2010
Politics & Social Criticism
Craft Beer Shows Why Americans Should Toast Deregulation – The Indianapolis Star: May 16, 2013 …Nanny State Attack on Freedom, Person Choice – The Indianapolis Star: May 10, 2013 Indiana vs. Illinois: Fiscal Sanity Reigns in One While The Other Has Lost Its Mind – The Indianapolis Star: April 14, 2013 Purdue’s Mitch Daniels May Save Students, Families Money–And Higher Education from Itself – The Indianapolis Star: March 21, 2013 Deleting The Individual: Big Data and Presidential Campaigns – Front Porch Republic: March 19, 2013 The Culture of Guns? What About The Culture of Narcissism? - Front Porch Republic: December 22, 2012 America: What Happened? A Sneak Preview of the “Other” Twilight Saga – Truthout: November 2, 2012 What Are You Thinking?: An Open Letter to President Obama’s Supporters - Counterpunch: October 26, 2012 The Dangerous Alliance of Big Government and Big Business – Front Porch Republic: October 5, 2012 What Ten Books To Read For the Election Season - The Daily Beast: September 6, 2012 Black History is American History - Relevant: February 22, 2012
Michael Moore vs. Jon Stewart: The Self-Destruction of The American Left – PopMatters: October 24, 2011
The Friendship of Mourning: What America Forgot After 9/11 – Truthout: October 9, 2011
A Big Lunch: Cheeseburgers, Oysters, and Decentralization on a Road Trip Through Indiana – Front Porch Republic: August 2, 2011
iHero: Steve Jobs, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Modern Heroism - Relevant: November 21, 2011
De-Normalize Your Brain: Charlie Sheen as Prophet – PopMatters: March 31, 2011
Find The Dude in Your Own Life- Dudespaper: March 3, 2011
The Rich Get Richer and The Young Go Deep Into Debt – BuzzFlash: December 6, 2010
Sipping The Tea Party – The Daily Yonder: April 22, 2010
End Slave Internships – True/Slant: April 3, 2010
America Neglects Springsteen’s Message – Washington Post: March 23, 2010
An American Mutant: A Three Part Series on the Man-Child (Part 3) – True/Slant: March 18, 2010
An American Mutant: A Three Part Series on the Man-Child (Part 2) – True/Slant: March 11, 2010
An American Mutant: A Three Part Series on the Man-Child (Part 1) – True/Slant: March 4, 2010
Stay Put and Start the Revolution – The Daily Yonder: January 21, 2010
Spirituality & Life
Examining the Many Novels on Jesus Christ – The Daily Beast: December 24, 2012 Takin’ It Easy for Us Sinners: The Dude and Jesus Christ – PopMatters: November 20, 2012 Remembering The Faith of Whitney Houston – Relevant: February 20, 2012
Thoughts On School Prayer – The Cresset: October 2011
The Friendship of Mourning: What America Forgot After 9/11 – Truthout: October 9, 2011
Sitting Inside a Mountain – Front Porch Republic: June 20, 2001
Living With a Literary Sensibility - Relevant: May 19, 2011
Politics Can’t Save Us – Relevant: April 8, 2011
There’s Spiritual Warfare: The Vow and Vocation of Bob Dylan – The Cresset: March 2011
