Welcome to my webspace. I am both a scholar/public intellectual with broad interests in U.S. culture, politics, and religion, and a musician/songwriter working in the ballpark of "Americana" with harmonic and rhythmic influences from jazz, rock, and Latin music.

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This is an experimental space to share public-facing writings and showcase my music projects. These things blur together and come apart, but with enough synergy to co-exist here. For more, click the "about" button or jump straight into the main sections. For a page with the most recent posts, organized by date, click here.  

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*Note: this is a successor site to "MBE: Mark's Blogging Experiment" and it includes the MBE archive.

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