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Music is a balm right now. But there’s little comfort for musicians

Music is a balm right now. But there’s little comfort for musicians

John Harris writes: [P]ublic performances of any kind have all been cancelled, and the hiatus could conceivably last well into next year. Festival season seems to be a write-off. And in the fine details of research about how the virus spreads, there are actually suggestions that the participatory aspects of music have been in part responsible for Covid-19’s transmission: witness a senior German virologist’s claim that over the last weeks and months, “wherever there was singing and dancing, the virus…

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It’s the worst possible time for Trump to make bogus claims of ‘total’ authority

It’s the worst possible time for Trump to make bogus claims of ‘total’ authority

Neal K. Katyal writes: I teach my law students that every so often in the law, the best way to understand the veracity of a claim is just to say it out loud. They got a great example of this on Monday when President Trump made a contribution to the legal lexicon: “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be. It’s total.” In terms that would even…

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