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What the demonstrators are calling for is not only a more satisfactory response to their arguments, but also a more mutually respectful community. They hold that the basic needs of all should be recognized and that policymakers should listen and respond in good faith to well-considered moral objections to their policies—and be open to persuasion by good reasons even if they are offered by people less powerful than themselves. They deserve our support...
Musical inclusiveness has its price, though: Eating from the tree of knowledge leads to the fall. Sadly, the more I listen to popular music the more I know I’ll never re-experience the initial, Promethean moment of personal discovery of the very concept of pop music. I’m sure that’s not a unique feeling. Oh, to be 15 again and have music mean everything and be certain about my musical opinions. To know that when Michael Stipe sang it was the expression of my inner voice, and then to resent the fact...
...days when I could wield “mainstream” as a snarling epithet, for days when I didn’t know better and didn’t know so much good music existed and didn’t know I would never ever be able to listen to everything because time marched on inexorably. When I imagined there was a canon of musical great works that was fixed, not one that kept growing (and that will keep growing). When I wrote down lyrics of my favorite songs on sheets of paper, as though imbuing those sheets with...
...living wage campaigners should capitalize on their opportunity to provide more formal input on a University matter than they have ever done before. They should conclude their protest without a living wage, but with the knowledge that they have made the University listen...
Loux asked everyone to listen to union organizers with yellow armbands with the word "marshall" written on them...