Essays About Mark Oppenheimer

How I Got Over

by Robert Fink A complicated skirmish over musical form under capitalism appears to have broken out recently amongst the leftist intelligentsia. The opening provocation, from The New Republic, was an attack by Mark Oppenheimer on the social-climbing strain of current arts education. Opposing the legions of Brooklyn Tiger Moms,… Read More

Music Lessons

by Bonnie Gordon This week Mark Oppenheimer of the New Republic wrote a provocative essay called “Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument” that asks why we, by which I think he means affluent, educated, and usually white parents, make our kids study classical… Read More