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"Disparate Impact" with Heather Mac Donald

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Rewrite of Beethoven's Nineteenth Symphony

A feminist crusading conductor stepping down now from the Baltimore Symphony decided that she would commission a different text to the final movement of the ninth symphony. She used for the United States, a poem by a Baltimore rapper named wordsmith substituting this for the Schiller. It is a work of just extraordinary mediocrity it's about the level of hallmark card platitudes, and it's absurd. And so, I think the sort of revisionism that's going on it I write about a production of Beethoven's only opera Fidelio,. That is an enlightenment, pay on to freedom and married love, and the ability to fight back against oppression and the tyrannical.

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