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Studies Show My Rock Songbook Is Right

The pop music of the last 50 years really has become progressively bereft of musical variety.  So says this Spanish analysis of gobs of pop songs . So Martha Bayles is right.  Geoffrey O’Brien’s nightmare last chapter of Sonata for Jukebox is right.   And me too, I . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 8.1.12

More on the State Department’s Religious Freedom Report Thomas F. Farr,  The Corner Reviewing Peter Leithart’s Political Theology (Pt. I) Matthew Lee Anderson,  Mere Orthodoxy Faith, Hope, and Lost Causes Rod Dreher,  The American Conservative Building Around the Fruit . . . . Continue Reading »

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