The Post-Partisan Emporium

One Song, Two Souls Meditating on an old song and the difference between the Irish and English expressions of it Morgoth I was recently on a road trip and, as is my custom, decided to take refuge in easy-listening playlists of songs primarily from the 70s and 80s. Nestled between Al Stewart’s  Year of The Cat  and The Alan Parson’s Project, I heard a song called  Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs  for the first time in decades. Hearing a pleasant but forgotten song again is a small pleasure in life, that moment of “Oh, I remember this one!” and the cracking open of associated memories. Yet this version of  Matchstalk Cats and Dogs  felt a little different, slightly unfamiliar and off. It was too folksy, cheerful, and, frankly, too Irish. But perhaps I was mistaken; maybe it had always been this way. I immediately carried out the inevitable Google search and discovered that this version was, in fact, a cover by The Fureys. The Fureys version featur...

  All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump? Thoughts on women and rage Janice Fiamengo Feminist uproar over Trump’s election was easy to predict, and not long in coming. Within ten days of the election, Clara Jeffery wrote in  Mother Jones  that “ Women are furious—in a Greek mythology sort of way .” Taking examples from TikTok, Jeffery chronicled abundant “sorrow and disbelief and terror, but also incandescent rage,” which many women vowed to exorcise on men: “‘ If his ballot was red, his balls stay blue ,’” she quoted one. In  The New York Times , a 16-year-old girl, Naomi Beinart, charted her tumultuous emotions, which included a sense of betrayal because her male classmates had carried on with their lives on the day after the election, seemingly immune to the girls’ all-pervasive gloom and outrage. “ Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair . We don’t even share the same future,” Beinart opined melodramatically. No one with even a minimal a...