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Tony Norman

Columnist Tony Norman leaves the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

John Fea   |  August 9, 2022

Tony Norman’s piece on Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama appeared at Current on our launch day–April 5, 2021. We are hoping our friend will now have more time to write for us! Here is a taste of his farewell column […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman slams Springsteen and Ticketmaster

John Fea   |  July 27, 2022

Over the weekend I lamented the possibility that I might not be able to see Springsteen on his upcoming tour. Tony Norman, an opinion writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a Current contributor, has my back and the backs of […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman takes on Grove City College

John Fea   |  May 4, 2022

Not familiar with what is going on at Grove City? Check out our coverage here. Here is a taste of Norman’s column: “Blessed are the (un)woke“: What Mr. Tisby didn’t know was that the opinions of the students who applauded […]

“An act of performative violence that impressed no one”

John Fea   |  April 6, 2022

Here is Tony Norman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and Current writer) on slapgate: I’m old enough to remember when Kanye West was considered the most embarrassing Black man in America. Little did I know that Will Smith was hiding in […]

Norman: “The cop who mistook her gun for a taser (and other mysteries)”

John Fea   |  April 19, 2021

Tony Norman is a columnist at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and Current contributor. Here is a taste of his recent column at the Post Gazette: The strangest thing about the killing of […]

Bruce Springsteen’s embrace of liberalism

John Fea   |  April 6, 2021

Yesterday we published Tony Norman’s piece on Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the much acclaimed Obama-Springsteen podcast. Check it out here. Read Norman’s piece alongside Dennis M. Hogan’s essay at The Baffler. In “Runaway American Dreams,” Hogan traces Springsteen’s move […]