A reader writes:

I read with great interest Kevid D Williamson’s piece on Aguila, especially since I had just read that Tom Morello, guitar virtuoso and far-left hypocrite extraordinaire, will be headlining a Labor Day concert, timed to coincide with the RNC’s convention, with various other far-left superstars such as Billy Bragg and Steve Earle in tow. Morello and his band Audioslave performed at a well-publicized concert in Cuba three years ago, and yet this avowed socialist who somehow gets portrayed as a parrhesiastic symbol of dissent in the press in spite of never having to worry about being arrested or censored for his political views has had nary a peep to say about the repression that goes on in Castro’s proletarian paradise. Any who wishes to counterprotest this supposed “Festival of Dissent” should simply hold aloft a picture of Aguila, and if someone asks who it is, just tell them it’s what a TRUE dissident looks like.

I haven’t seen the word “parrhesiastic” since I suffered my undergraduate Foucault quota. It’s a shame about guys like Steve Earle, who was great back when he wrote songs instead of sermons, and Tom Morello, who is a great guitarist but in love with an inhumane ideology.