Jun 27, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

English Autumnal Bliss: The Progressive Rock of Big Big Train

By Bradley J. Birzer|2014-01-12T15:17:42-06:00June 27th, 2012|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Music, Progressive Rock, Western Civilization|Tags: Andy Poole, David Longdon, Greg Spawton|

BBT, English Electric. Forthcoming, September 3, 2012 An Interview with Greg Spawton We’re in the middle of perhaps the largest revival of progressive rock—that form of rock music which pursues the artistic and the mythic—since the genre became somewhat suspect as overblown and over-the-top in the second half of the 1970s with the [...]

A Few Unwelcome Words about Mrs. Klein

By Bruce Frohnen|2014-12-30T18:16:10-06:00June 27th, 2012|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Culture, Film|

Karen Klein, the grandmother/bus monitor whose bullying by a group of middle school students was captured on video and posted online, has become a bit of a celebrity over the summer of 2012. I have nothing but respect for this eminently decent woman. But the story of her ordeal has followed an all-too-common trajectory in [...]