My original template for this blog did not include the “Politics/Culture” category you see off to the right of your screen, where the site’s archives stretch back to 2012. At the time, I fancied Traversing as a kind of haven from the hurly burly world of politics, a place where sometimes weighty, sometimes light-hearted issues of how to live in, reflect on and understand the world could be discussed under a multi-hued blanket of the arts, religion, psychology and philosophy.
Another six months on, I was nearing the end of a post on songs by the folkies John Stewart and John Gorka when it occurred to me that, like plentiful music across every genre, their songs were so intertwined with the politics of their day that labeling the category of that post merely as “Music” did not do it justice.
So was born the “Politics/Culture” category that, once Donald Trump barreled onto the American political scene a coup...
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