Why Genres Die . . . and More
Does streaming music instead of buying it fundamentally change our relationship with music and our ability to appreciate it?
Does streaming music instead of buying it fundamentally change our relationship with music and our ability to appreciate it?
Is pop music getting worse? Two of YouTube’s most popular music critics—Rick Beato and Anthony Fantano—disagree, but neither offers any explicit standard for distinguishing good from bad music.
Is music getting worse? Or is it doing just fine? Two of YouTube’s most popular music critics—Rick Beato and Anthony Fantano—disagree.
There were infinite ways things could have gone wrong, countless roadblocks in the face of which Jimmy Page might understandably have given up.
Barter, it turns out, can be a surprisingly effective means for finding actual friends.
I’m excited to announce Objective Standard Institute’s brand new “Republic of Letters.” This is a meetup group for active writers who have taken (or are taking) one of OSI’s writing courses or have published an article with The Objective Standard. I will host...
Craig and I have just begun our first two (sold out!) sessions of the OSI course “How to Write Powerfully in Defense of Liberty,” and there’s a point that’s come up that I’d like to emphasize and to share with Level Up readers and contributors....
When I was a kid, my best friend and I were addicted to stories of people overcoming the impossible, and we wanted to live in a world of heroes to whatever extent we could. We would pretend we were characters from practically...