Denis Dutton, the editor of Arts & Letters Daily, has some interesting stuff (link via Virginia Postrel); for instance, his review of Charles Rosen's Art of the Piano:

Rosen refers to Anton Webern's wistful dream that the postman would someday do his rounds whistling a twelve-tone row. The trouble is, of course, that the postman wants to whistle a tune, not a composer's intentional foiling of the very idea of a tune, and it seems to me that this fact must, sooner or later, to be faced if we want to analyze the failure of modernism in music.

Elsewhere he argues that capitalism's a staggering success, despite what left-wing intellos say.