links for 2010-07-25

Scott Lemieux: On the Worthlessness of "Authenticity" As A Criterion of Value

B: "If authenticity mattered Billy Ray Cyrus, born into a Pentecostal family in KY, would be a much better musician than Ingram Cecil Connor III, better known as Gram Parsons, who was driven to prep school by a chauffeur, but I'll be damned if Hickory Wind isn't an infinitely better song than Achy Breaky Heart."





Jon Hilsenrath: Deflation Defies...