Frontiers Slashes Its Workforce
The publisher lays off 1/3 of its workers and reorganizes in the wake of problems with bulk publishing. Touting AI is another bad move.
Kent Anderson
Are Music’s Failures Now Ours?
Consolidation, producer-centrism, monoculture, and a lack of focus on the consumer all killed rock music — sound familiar?
OA Is Part of a Larger Problem
The denigration of theory, human intelligence, and individuality through the lens of quantity-based success narratives
Sophistry, Not Analysis
A recent essay shows once again how sophistry isn't knowledge, logic, or fact
Substack’s Nazi Problem
Substack hits a new low as a media venture, and risks losing it all
Song: “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”
A 1929 hit re-released in 1968 as a novelty song hit again for an artist with a cult following.
Review: “Music: A Subversive History”
A nicely framed history of music is readable, interesting, and enlightening
Review: “Athena Unbound”
A pro-OA book seeks to rebrand the movement as troubled but unassailable, while the author avoids digging in to obvious issues
The Deceptions Made for OA
The whiff of desperation is inescapable as OA advocates resort to outright lies to regain some momentum
Song: “Hazy Shade of Winter”
The Bangles covered a Paul Simon song, and ended up besting the original.