Dec 11, 2009

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Sibelius & the Nazis:
Anatomy of a Smear

I am a great admirer of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who along with Richard Strauss and Ralph Vaughan Williams, was one of the last generation (so far) of great European Romantic composers. Thus my attention was drawn to a  November 29, 2009 article about Sibelius in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “A Composer’s Ties to Nazi Germany Come Under New...

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Dec 6, 2009

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Comeuppances

Mississippi circuit court Judge Robert “Bobby” DeLaughter is going to federal prison.In 1994 DeLaughter, then a Mississippi prosecutor, tried 73-year-old Byron de la Beckwith, who suffered from high blood pressure, heart problems, and other ailments, for the 1963 murder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) official Medgar Evers.Two...

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Apr 29, 2009

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Memoirs of a Dissident Student in Postmodern Academia

From The Occidental Observer, April 6, 2009After completing my university education in 1992, I quickly discovered that my degree was not especially useful in the “real world.” It was not until twelve years later, after having founded and grown a successful business, and after having become aware of the cultural pathologies of our times, that I decided that a degree in Cultural...

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