I read the entire article, OUTSTANDING. I seriously doubt many will take the time. It takes longer than 30 seconds.
I read it. Both interviewer and interviewee were superb.
I can relate to Steyn more than I knew: I am a classically-trained musician, but I am a pop guy at heart, and I have often despaired of churchianity (a significant component of the conservative sphere) ignoring or reviling good music simply because it is secular - or more commonly now, embracing it in an entirely worldly and uncritical manner.
Many of the composers of the great music of the church were neither specifically Christian nor even particularly moral.
Though I am not a big fan of him as a person, Frankie Schaeffer once wrote a book called, Addicted to Mediocrity, about the tendency of Christian/conservative culture to settle for third-rate quality as long as it is separate from what the world produces.