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You Are Still Here: How A 2016 Big Band Album Predicted America’s Conspiracy Crisis

Nick Cusworth
September 2, 2020
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I've been in a daze for around four years now. Like many individuals both in America and in different parts of the world, something fundamentally broke inside of me after November 8, 2016. For most of us in th... Read More...

Jazz Club Quarterly // January – March 2018

Heavy Blog
April 9, 2018
The Jazz Club
During my freshman year in college, a friend and I were hanging in my dorm room and listening to BADBADNOTGOOD's BBNG2. After a couple of songs, he turned to me and mused "What ever happened to jazz? I wish we ... Read More...

Jazz Club 2017 // The Jazziest Offerings of the Year

Scott Murphy
December 21, 2017
The Jazz Club
We've charted out quite the trajectory for Jazz Club over the past few years. Initially, we launched the column as a means of dissecting key albums from throughout the year, starting with what I still fervently... Read More...

Who Do You Trust?: How Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society’s Real Enemies Explains Our Conspiracy-Driven Politics

Nick Cusworth
October 28, 2016
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The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barri... Read More...

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