 And to boot, country music at large is really topping the charts in the U.S. But I think our fascination with cowboys is bigger than all this. The cowboy is speaking to us. But what is the cowboy saying? I sat down with two incredible thinkers, Jay Wertham, culture critic for the New York Times Magazine, and Nora Burnett Abrams, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, which had an exhibit called Cowboy.