Within the song “Maoz Tzur” is a prayer that history bends toward justice and that the moral order of the universe is not a fairy tale.The post Not just for ...

Hatikvah is an unusual national anthem. Its author, Naftali Hertz Imber, had many detractors, and was a plagiarist, drinker, gossip, and freeloader; the tune for Hatikvah was taken from a Romanian ...

When Jon Batiste takes the Super Bowl stage on Sunday to perform the national anthem, he won’t be alone — at least in spirit. The seven-time Grammy winner, who wrote music for the Pixar film “Soul” ...