The humbug of it all

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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe …

Ray Bradbury wrote that in a poem called “We have our Arts so we don’t die of Truth.”

One of the many outrages of the coronavirus panic is discarding the Arts among the other “non-essential” functions of humans.

Music non-essential? Live performances non-essential — even dangerous?

Humbug.

I say again: Humbug.

I will take this heresy one step further: There is no non-essential human life. To deprive...