At one point in A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic, Dylan’s girlfriend returns from a trip abroad to a lovely surprise. “Oh Bobby!” she says, beaming with pride: “Did you teach yourself how to make coffee?”
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How Bob Dylan fought the proto-woke
The American birthright entails both the freedom and often times the necessity of making yourself up from scratch. Many of America’s most famous heroes were self-made men, from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. The same is true …
Bob Dylan has no philosophy
This is something special, obviously. Consider, for a moment, the author’s credentials. Pelé knows a lot about playing football, as does Floyd Mayweather about boxing, but do they have the chops to transfer their instinctive and acquired expertise into the …
