Michael Blowhards writes:

Dear Blowhards --

* Arts and Letters Daily has highlighted some spectaculary good pieces recently. Don't miss Anne Applebaum's thoughts about how the recently-deceased arcthiect Philip Johnson managed to do so well for himself despite having been a fan of the Fascists early in life -- she points out that many others were ruined by less contact with Fascism than Johnson had. And TK's piece about modernism in music is a treat.