On our homepage today is a piece by the formidable Stephen Spruiell (who almost redeems the initials “SS”). (I sometimes refer to him as “Double S.”) The title is “Barney [meaning Frank], in Context,” and the subtitle is “The chairman dances around his history with Fannie and Freddie.” Does the phrase “the chairman dances” ring a bell with you? It’s the title of a piece for orchestra by John Adams, taken out of his opera Nixon in China. So I check with the editor who wrote the headline (and subhead): Did he mean to allude to the Adams piece? Oh, yes. Adams may be a terrible lefty, but no one can say he never got a little love from National Review (not that he asked for it).