Two years ago, Straw Man Army, a DIY post-punk duo from New York, released their album SOS, and it impressed the hell out of me. Now, Straw Man Army have announced plans to drop a new LP called ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

In the 1980s, hardcore punk warned of existential threats clotting on the horizon, prescient like sci-fi, loud like an alarm. Nonstop war. Ecological peril. The unresolved legacy of colonialism. The ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

As the curtain falls on Act 1 of this farcical dramedy called 2022, Straw Man Army’s “SOS” already feels like the album of the year — yes, in a boring, music-crit-praise-language kind of way, but more ...