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There’s a music station I’d been listening to lately not so much because I enjoy the music but to get a reprieve from the politicization of everything.

It was going so well for a while until one day the hammer fell and the lead host’s sidekick went on some inarticulate rant about the stupidity of all conservatives. Click. I’ve been playing The Eagles’ greatest hits on loop ever since.

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And while it’s all very disappointing, being unable to take a break from what Jonah Goldberg in The National Review more accurately describes as “the lifestylization of politics,” some instances of artists falling by the wayside are worse than others.

Looking back on 21st century arts and culture, few historians will lament that alleged comedian Amy Schumer veered away from her craft to turn her stand-up tour into little more than an anti-Trump screed.

But we should all expect a little more from someone like Salman Rushdie, whose new novel The Golden House looks to be more look a compilation of MSNBC personalities’ Twitter feeds than the latest offering from the Booker-winning author of Midnight’s Children.