12.15.2023 - By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
* Ron Karenga * Handel’s Messiah and stock portfolio * Musicology is dumb, says Matt * Hip-hop is appropriation and it’s great * Method Man thinks the Stones and Bootsy are the same * The Fall of Minneapolis * The Fifth’s verdict * Some good things, some bad things * Revisiting the Chauvin trial * An 800,000 word reflection from James Bennet * Fanaticism and forgivenness * How is this plagiarist surviving? * How about firing these dopes * LP and AJ * The many, many, many dead in Ukraine
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