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Post-Trump-Partem: Politics in the Age of Irony.
This is the first in a series of longer-form Crotty lectures on art, philosophy, and politics. Works referenced in this episode and for further stud…
1 year, 9 months ago
Crotty Squeezes Lemon.
Subscribers to The Crotty Farm Report know that I drove from my CrottMo redoubt in Omaha’s Little Italy to New York to watch and celebrate Donald Tru…
1 year, 9 months ago
Trump wins. America dodges a bullet.
Though I drove from Omaha to Times Square to be in Donald Trump’s home city of New York, I didn't know if he would win. To protect my heart from a C…
1 year, 9 months ago
It all comes down to Pennsylvania.
Like a good hedgehog, Kamala Harris has a singular, easy path to election victory: win the former blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wis…
1 year, 9 months ago
Crotty votes for first time in Nebraska.
In a nod to playwright Brian Friel, Crotty votes for the first time in his “home place” of Nebraska, having moved on from the hopeless, dysfunctional…
1 year, 9 months ago
Art, Censorship, and Religion in the Trump Era. With a cameo from our Taylor Swift correspondent!
On the historic day when Crotty turned in his California driver’s license to become a registered voter in the bluest speck of the blue dot, I am agai…
1 year, 10 months ago
Cosmic Crotty Comet Sighting Near Chance Ridge.
On the day that Elon Musk’s Space X “toothpicks” welcomed home the Super Heavy booster of its Starship in South Texas, Crotty
stared into the night s…
1 year, 10 months ago
The STRATCOM of Railroad Infrastructure: The Harriman Dispatch Center!
At 850 Jones St., a block from the famed Old Market in the railroad capital of Omaha––where westward construction of the transcontinental railroad co…
1 year, 10 months ago
Chicago: that Toddlin' Town.
Chicago is the most architecturally spectacular city in America, with signature masterworks by Jahn, Richardson, Sullivan, and van der Rohe, founder …
1 year, 10 months ago
Red dot, blue dot.
Some Democrats are even trying to get “The Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett, to display a blue dot outside his long-time Dundee home. But don’t bank…
1 year, 11 months ago