“We complain,” he says, ' of a hackneyed and cockneyized Europe; but wherever, in desperate search of the untrodden, we carry our much-labelled luggage, our bad French, our demand for a sitz-bath and pale ale, we rub off the pale bloom of local color, and establish a precedent for unlimited intrusion.

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, a political activist for a free Tibet and a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, links fast food music to American culture's lack of spiritual understanding.

Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

broadsheet journalism