Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

