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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As many of you know, Current will officially drop on April 5, 2021. On that day we will publish five short essays (and an editor’s introduction) on the left side of this website. We are excited to announce our opening...
Tony Norman is right about the Springsteen Super Bowl ad. Watch it again: Here is his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on the ad: This is not Bruce Springsteen’s best work. Those of us of a certain age were immediately compelled to...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman wonders what America would be like today if KQV in Pittsburgh did not fire him. Here is a taste of his column: One of the fascinating factoids about Limbaugh that is being emphasized in local...
