Commentary

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Gordon Lightfoot’s Great Lakes’ Lives

By Jonathan Dale|2023-05-08T09:47:46-04:00May 6, 2023|Commentary|

No song better captures the terrifying power of the Great Lakes than Lightfoot’s tragic, captivating rendering. It is a sonic and literary achievement, translating the sudden confusion, fear, and despair as the Edmund Fitzgerald is unable to weather a November storm.

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In Pittsburgh, Local Journalism Is Worth the Fight

By Noelle Mateer|2023-01-29T10:17:21-05:00January 25, 2023|Commentary, Pittsburgh|

Having two major news sources in the city owned by notoriously anti-worker management can’t be good. For local journalism to be good, local journalism jobs need to be good.

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James Purdy’s Outrages Against the Establishment

By Daniel Green|2023-01-25T09:28:51-05:00January 21, 2023|Books, Commentary|

Purdy’s harshest words were consistently aimed at the literary apparatus that he felt was inherently unable to appreciate his formally deliberate but thematically audacious fiction.

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Midwestern Ghosts of Christmas Past

By Ed Breen|2022-12-27T09:37:25-05:00December 24, 2022|Commentary|

That was the street-level windows of the big department stores back in the glory days of Christmas shopping before Walmart and Amazon teamed to suck the last dime from us while, at the same time, squeezing the last drop of joy from the season.

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Blowing Up Missouri

By Sheila J. Simon|2022-12-19T09:17:02-05:00December 15, 2022|Commentary|

It sounds ridiculous to blow up and flood part of a state, but this ridiculous idea worked.

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On the Post-Gazette Picket Line

By Vince Guerrieri|2022-11-16T09:18:49-05:00November 15, 2022|Commentary, Pittsburgh|

Of course, the irony here is that 30 years ago, the Post-Gazette found itself in the midst of a similar strike. And it’s the only reason the Post-Gazette is still around today.

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