https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/02/01/the_nullification_dilemma_690620.html

And I was wondering how your twelve step program was going.

Total fail.

So that’s the end of the Kennedy Center until there is a new president.

Shaking up a closed, sclerotic, and often unthinkingly leftist artistic community? Good. Building a board of todies so cowed by the dear leader that they illegally re-name the venue after him? Not good. Not good at all. That’s how you lose people. And the cost of losing people right now is exactly what Abigail Spanberger is getting ready to do to Virginia.

It occurs to me that the second Trump administration is the second time in my adult life time that the right will have committed hari kari. The first time, it was over the Iraq war and bringing democracy to the middle east. This time, its over Donald Trump’s ego.

The first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Indeed.

I agree with Huxley and tend to keep the art and the politics separated.

Meaning that unless one is an absolute purist that everyone who is not 100% for my positions is against me, one must grant that:

Ultimately the politics/art discussion comes down to one’s opinion about what goes too far.

I was reacting to an earlier comment condemning Glass for being performative in his refusal not to perform at the Kennedy Center, perhaps unfairly to you.

However, your claim: “He has just broadcast to the world that he values his politics more than he values his music” still strikes me as one-dimensional reduction of Philip Glass.

If you wish to declare Glass a tool, it’s fine by me. I disagree. My point stands:

Ultimately the politics/art discussion comes down to one’s opinion about what goes too far.

Who cares if it’s performative? Critics are gonna be critics. I wasn’t bashing Glass, and I wouldn’t call it ‘performative’ if someone decided not to buy a ticket either – for whatever reason. I don’t care whether Glass performs his piece or not. But I think he’s a fool for the reasons he’s given, and I think his music is simplistic and repetitive. But that doesn’t mean I don’t accept it as an art form.