American Revolution was one of history's great 'talent explosions' WashTimesOpEd
Visiting the Supreme Court in 2008, students from Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, heard Justice Antonin Scalia, then in his 22nd term, launch an impassioned defense of the Founding Father — already under attack from progressive revisionists — for whom their school was named, followed by an intriguing observation about human history.
When I asked the Rev. Paul Scalia if his father enjoyed any pop music outside of Broadway, the answer was swift: “No. No.” “Perhaps I’ve finally found a rock song you might like,” Mr. Garner recalled telling his collaborator in “Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship With Justice Antonin Scalia” . I agree with the justice about the periodic emergence of pockets of genius. Unlike him, I consider the Beatles, and the time and place known as Swinging London, first described as such in the Daily Mail in 1964, as the most recent of these explosions of talent in human history — and in some ways, the most impressive.
When we widen our lens to include London and surrounding areas, we are forced to confront a truly staggering array of geniuses, many of whom produced works of high caliber, and million-selling popularity, over decades’ time: the Rolling Stones, the Hollies, the Kinks, Donovan, the Animals, the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and Cream, Traffic and Blind Faith, Rod Stewart and the Faces, the Moody Blues, David Bowie.
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