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Friday Performance Pick – 55

November 20, 2015 by Hank Reynolds

Ravenscroft, Psalm 98 (Bay Psalm Book) With Thanksgiving approaching, lets take a look at the music of early American settlers. First, a disclaimer: Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588-1635) was British, not American. But if you plopped down in a group of Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1640, you … Read more

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Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”