Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
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Why Do You Always Have Room for Dessert?
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Interstellar Travel: Approaching Light Speed
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The Orville Season 2 | Deleted Scene from “A Happy Refrain
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Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
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Why China’s control of rare earths matters | FT
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Is Beethoven about to be canceled, too?
22 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
There is no area of human endeavor, be it scholarship, art, science, or technology, that is immune from modern accusations of systemic racism. It’s almost funny how far the woke can cook up accusations, often without evidence, that an area is afflicted with bigotry and exclusion.
The latest victim appears to be Beethoven—not just the man and his work, but specifically the Fifth Symphony, which the authors below, Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, indict for exclusionism and, curiously, for “regularizing” classical music concerts so that concergoers have to be polite, well dressed, and adhere to the rule not to make noise. Their article is in Vox, which gets considerable circulation, so you can’t claim that this is just a pair of cranks sounding off.
Well, that may well be accurate, but these cranks have cred. Sloan is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Southern California, while
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