[contextly_auto_sidebar id="6oJMFpFGim9R2BdzLisDHKzhOIShkqfL"] I WANT to go back for a minute to Alex Ross's wonderful piece, "The Naysayers," on the Frankfurt School. Ross drifts between interpretations here, but he comes up with a very resonant description of what's gone wrong with our culture over the last few decades: If Adorno were to look upon the cultural landscape of the twenty-first … [Read more...]