Conservative critiques of pop culture tend toward the scathing. Think of Allan Bloom railing against brain dead kids who listen to rock music through headphones or Robert Bork warning that it was but a slight slouch from Elvis to Gomorrah. Mark Judge comes at these things a bit differently. He recently found fault not with rock music but its criticism, which is "damn near impossible to read" because the press "has become so liberal and secular that to rock critics, writing about music has become an exercise in creative writing and taxonomy." They are no longer interested in answering that all-important question "What is this music about?"
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