Posting has been scarce of late due to my normal post-semester crash. Hopefully my brain will be up and running soon. I plan on tackling Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Edward Abbey’s Monkey-Wrench Gang this week. In lieu of in-depth thoughts, here’s a potpourri of impressions: 1. Modernism, Music, and Politics [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBVYhyXU8o] Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody for…