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Every opportunity taken to point up the jagged emotions in the text and music. Classical music review by Rachel Halliburton

Johann Sebastian Bach lived in God’s eyes rather in the eyes of men. It mattered little to him what others thought.

Even our most beautiful rituals and reflections can’t bring relief from the reality of death.

From the blog of Shimon Samuels at The Times of Israel

What Does Culture Do? What we know as 20th-Century fascism, or synarchism—as we fought against it under President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership—lies in a persisting effort to overturn those principles of civilized relations among sovereign nation-states which were adopted by the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. As we have documented this fact in locations published earlier, the turn in direction of pathway, away from President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership, toward the catastrophe which is...