The American Spectator

Bruce Springsteen’s Anti-American Anthem

It was July 1984, a very late weeknight. My buddy Mike and I closed up Perkins Restaurant in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left about 1 a.m. with a six-pack of Budweiser pounders for the old Kaufman’s ...

How Bruce Springsteen has rocked Washington, D.C. without playing a note

The announcement of the Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour on Feb. 17 prompted spirted responses in Washington, D.C.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Course Catalog: Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision

For decades, Bruce Springsteen’s songs about fast cars, working-class dreamers, and loves lost and found have helped to define a quintessentially American notion of freedom and rebellion. But do the ...
The New York Times

Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative

Mr. Duneier is a professor of sociology at Princeton, where he teaches a course on Bruce Springsteen’s America. “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” which arrived in movie theaters recently, is ...