Does the Wonderful Wizard of Oz contain a political agenda? Written in 1900, it was surrounded by arguments about populism and bimetalism. Could it have been affected or even allegorical to the history it was surrounded by? Find out....

In 2005, I watched the British band Keane at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. After they finished playing a song, the lead singer, Tom Chaplin, said it was the band's first time in Kansas. Many members of the crowd immediately booed...