“It is easy to lie with statistics, but it’s a lot easier to lie without them.” – Richard J. Herrnstein After tearing apart my home office and doig some re-organization I finally came across my copy of Charles Murray’s “Human Accomplishment” which was the main reason I decided to clean-up the office in the first [...]
Also tagged Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment, music excellenceSo I’m in the middle of “Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Syria” by Jonathan Holt Shannon who’s one of the leading experts on Arabic music (from an academic standpoint). What I’m really struck by is the story, and I hear and read this time and time again, of the issue of Modernization [...]
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