Table of Contents There is a standard critical reflex when the subject of Taylor Swift arises in intellectual discourse: a kind of pre-emptive defensiveness, as if to engage seriously with her work is to confess an embarrassing lapse in taste. This essay refuses that posture. The interesting question about Swift is not whether she is […]
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