Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The absence of “woke” voices in Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” (2023)

Listening to jazz and improvised music as comedy rather than tragedy

Opposition, the transfer of power, and the concept of democracy

Greg Brown’s 1990s visions of the future of technology in “Where Is Maria” and “Whatever It Was"

Electric-guitar pioneer Adolph Rickenbacker was born in Basel in 1887

Three great vault songs on Taylor Swift’s 2023 release “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)"