Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman ha...
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional Amer...
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams th...
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held...
There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible - at least, it's not possible if we continue the American tradition of true individual freedom, which also implies individual ...
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intende...
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memo...
We must convince by reason, not prescribe by tradition.
Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. It is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which often, by tradition or explicit credo, are political orga...
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
Doris: It's tradition. Harry Block: Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
Traditional values are not gone. They are good netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net
