Win McCormack

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Editor-in-Chief at The New Republic

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Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Win McCormack

4 hours agoBelichick always kept tight control of his dealings and a considerable distance from the press. Then he began dating a much younger woman named Jordon Hudson. Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at …
Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

At the start of Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story—a film whose opening title card reads conjuring the rolling thunder revue—magician Georges Méliès drapes a blanket over a woman seated on a chair. He pulls the blanket off, and she is no longer there. Then he puts the blanket back on the chair, pulls it off again, and presto, she has reappeared.
The Two Best Bob Dylan Films

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

In my column on Bob Dylan in last month’s issue, I offered a recitation and description of what I thought were all the Dylan concerts I attended over the course of some 40 years, numbering seven in all. But after that issue went out, while reading something about Tom Petty, I realized I had strangely forgotten one of them—strangely, because it was in retrospect possibly the most enjoyable one of all.
How Bob Dylan Has Mirrored the Death of American Optimism

Mar 14, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

When my fellow classmates and I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1963, our future and the future of our nation seemed bright and full of infinite promise. The charming, handsome, and charismatic John F. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, was president of the United States. The civil rights movement, which promised at last to give Black people in America equality, was gathering an apparently unstoppable force; the now legendary March on Washington had taken place a month earlier.
How Bob Dylan Has Mirrored the Death of American Optimism

Mar 14, 2025 | yahoo.com | Win McCormack

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysWhen my fellow classmates and I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1963, our future and the future of our nation seemed bright and full of infinite promise. The charming, handsome, and charismatic John F. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, was president of the United States.
Bob Dylan and Me

Feb 16, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

Very little of what the film A Complete Unknown portrays is true to history, starting with the opening scenes. It opens with a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving by car in New York City and quickly finding his way to Greenwich Village, where a random bearded man in a bar tells him where he can find Woody Guthrie, as if Guthrie’s location were common knowledge in the Village.
An RFK for Today?

Oct 20, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

In early June 1968, I was working in Boston as a substitute schoolteacher in the city’s public school system and living in an apartment across the Charles River in Cambridge. I would walk down to the Central Square subway station to catch a train to work. Sometimes I would go into the greasy spoon Hayes-Bickford cafeteria next to the station for a cup of coffee or a full breakfast of bacon and eggs.
Mr. Attorney General, Tear Up That Memo

Feb 9, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

On March 22, 2019, special counsel Robert Mueller his report on possible collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to then–Attorney General William Barr. Almost a month later, Barr issued a redacted version of the report, with a statement asserting that Mueller had found no persuasive evidence of conspiracy or collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents.
The Netanyahu Betrayal

Nov 11, 2023 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

This column was created in order to promulgate civic republicanism, a political philosophy originating in ancient Athens and Rome. The philosophy calls for individuals to look out for the general interest of their community, or polity, beyond their own individual concerns. An alternative term for the philosophy is communitarianism, and its first major exponent was Aristotle, who viewed the city-state, or polis, of Athens as an extension of the family.
Hot Enough For You?

Sep 14, 2023 | newrepublic.com | Win McCormack

On Sunday, July 30, of this year, The Wall Street Journal published a column by Allysia Finley, a member of the paper’s editorial board, entitled “Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder.” You could deduce from the title that the writer was no serious thinker, despite her degree from Stanford University.