All Kinds of Brows

Reading a new collection of essays by Richard Taruskin, in this case Cursed Questions , is always a disconcerting experience because it is, on the one hand, stimulating and informative, and on the ot…

Making Distortions More Accessible

I sometimes ask myself if I am being paranoid. And then I ask myself if I am being paranoid enough? Perhaps there really is an overarching strategy to turn us all into uninformed, ignorant patsies, e…