Music Critics Can't Be Pure Specialists

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I think music critics need to have a command of neighboring cultural areas. When you're writing about opera, you're writing about literature as well as music. So every music critic can't be a pure specialist. You've looked at one dimension, it sheds light on things, but you need to really know what you don't know. That was somebody's answer. It was, i've no idea. No idea ever. They're speaking in a way that would make sense givein their academic work. O k, next one, you will get this one, because i'm not going to try to remove the clues. If you wrap it up in some soft war, i promise i won...

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On this special year-in-review episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to talk about the most popular—and most underrated—episodes, Tyler's personal highlight of the year, how well state capacity libertarianism has fared, a new food rule for ordering well during the pandemic, how his production function changed this year, why he got sick of pickles, when he thinks the next face-to-face recording will be, the first thing he’ll do post vaccine, an update on his next book, and more.

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