The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Beers for Fears

Americans live on a diet of fear.  The fears on which we feed are not  just our metaphorical daily dose of nuclear holocaust, deadly plague, poisonous spiders, extraterrestrial invasion, and global warming, but, literally, the food we put into our mouths.

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Wednesday’s Child: The Death of Music in the Spirit of Fun

A longish title today, but worth it. Nietzsche’s birthday, on October 15 exactly 180 years ago, is coming up, and what better tribute to the author of The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music than a modern update? Especially because my post a few weeks back, on the different speeds with which the arts atrophy, elicited such a lively response from the gentle reader.