Commentary As anyone even half-awake, as opposed to ”woke,” knows, the arts, monolithically left, are about as dead as they have ever been in our culture. Name the genre, it’s one propagandistic bore. The message is always the same—and it’s a downer. When art is created by conformists—and at this moment the left are the biggest conformists possibly imaginable—it is sure to be worthless. Speaking of which, as a member of the Motion Picture Academy, for the first time ever I didn’t even bother to vote this year, let alone watch the movies. Who needs Hollywood’s solemn lectures? But, there’s hope, big hope actually, from the music world, and at the highest levels. The Brits Van Morrison and Eric Clapton—two of the greatest stars of the last fifty years—have broken from the oh-so-tired, conventional “progressive” mold of popular music with not one, but two songs that push the content envelope. …