Reality Check: The Unsinkable ACA – Bulletproof “Obamacare” Rolls On James Campion July 26, 2017 Columns It survived six grueling months in 2009 into early 2010 of hearings, debates, propaganda—both pro and con—and an unprecedented act of partisan solidarity to be passed. It survived waves of protests and court he...
Reality Check: The Summer Of “Annie Hall” At 40 James Campion July 19, 2017 Columns Pop culture is the folk culture of the modern market, the culture of the instant, at once subsuming past and future and refusing to acknowledge either. - Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces I heard comment...
Reality Check: Citizens Of New Jersey Unite Against Government Suppression James Campion July 12, 2017 Columns Before heading to Europe to kiss Vladimir Putin’s ass and after spending a week getting into Twitter wars with cable TV hosts, President Trump unleashed his completely unnecessary paranoid-central, daddy-didn’t...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion June 28, 2017 Columns Mr. Campion, Your take on music, especially musical icons is always exceptional. (CHARLES EDWARD ANDERSON "CHUCK" BERRY – 1926 - 2017 – Issue: 3/29/17) This may be your finest. And what a subject to hit a ho...
Rock Reads: A Summer Guide For The Rock & Roll Literate James Campion June 21, 2017 Columns Looking for a celebration of music in words to while away your lazy summer days? Testimony – Robbie Robertson (2016) The story of The Band is arguably the most mysterious and incomplete of any ro...
Reality Check: Stumbling Into Fatherhood James Campion June 21, 2017 Columns Dedicated To The Dad In All Of Us I have never written much about my daughter in this space. That is not what it’s for. I do recognize that in its origins nearly twenty years ago this coming Augu...
Reality Check: Comey Speaks James Campion June 14, 2017 Columns Fired And Vilified Former FBI Director Takes His Swings One hundred and thirty-eight days into his presidency, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer is holding a press conference defending his client against charges of ...
Reality Check: Apology Syndrome 2017 James Campion June 7, 2017 Columns Where’s the punch line? - Alice Cooper to jc, 9/13 There is a mural in an alleyway in the Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland, of Sinead O’Connor. It reads: “Sinead you were right all along, we we...
LOVE…TO…TURN…YOU…ON: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band At 50 James Campion May 31, 2017 Columns It was 50 years ago today… June 1, 1967, to be exact; the day the cultural axis of the Western Hemisphere is altered by a singular artistic event. The Beatles, the most celebrated, imitated and dissected...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion May 24, 2017 Columns This is really like some sort of episode of the old Twilight Zone. Sane people sit back and say... "Well surely NOW people will see" and we've been saying that for about a year or two now, on a weekly basis. (M...
