a reminder

To remind myself,  I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's review of The Suicide of Reason by Lee Harris today on the bus home from the park.  Blind Faiths was published on Jan. 6, 2008 in The New York Times  and it is one of those rare pieces that I felt was wholly reasonable, including other pieces I have read by her, particularly in its reservations on the value of Romanticism.  I think this may have been the more forceful for having been to the San Francisco Symphony performance of Beethoven's 4th last night.  While MTT talked about the work's emotional impact, mostly what I thought about was how much more I enjoy Vivaldi, Haydn, and Mozart.