The Christmas Song Cultural Barometer

Secular Christmas songs are really about their era's social arrangements

Last week, I had this article out at The Bulwark, titled “The Curious Rise of the Complicated Christmas Song”:

The brief, intense period of cultural production that gave us this part of the Christmas canon has remained with us for far longer than anyone would have guessed back in the 1950s. There’s obviously something nostalgic and comforting about these…