The always provocative “Spengler” at Asia Times has a very strong essay, “Why You Pretend to Like Modern Art”
The writer’s muscular prose style, erudition, and anonymity have made a sport of guessing his identity. (Nominees range from V. S. Naipaul and Henry Kissinger through John Farrenkopf, Dmitry Shlapentokh, Nick Land, and David P. Goldman, to Mark Steyn and Salman Rushdie.)
To whet your appetite, here are a few morsels from his latest opinion:
“You pretend to like modern art because you want to be creative. In fact, you are not creative, not in the least…You have your heart set on being creative because you want to worship yourself, your children, or some pretentious impostor, rather than the god of the Bible. Absence of faith has not made you more rational. On the contrary, it has made you ridiculous in your adoration of clownish little deities, of whom the silliest is yourself. G K Chesterton said that if you stop believing in God, you will believe in anything.”
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah: 5:20 My son, Spc. James Kuritz, was recognized by the Maine House of Representatives in January. As I proud father, I wanted to share the news. 
