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National Endowment for the Arts
May 2, 2025
MagazineDana Liebelson
Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will
The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power. Here’s how their plan is going so far.
May 16, 2024
MagazineMaureen Corrigan
A Right-Wing Counter-Hegemony
On culture in a fascist America
June 7, 2018
Jeet Heer
Poetry is back. Does social media deserve credit?
May 26, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Why Are Americans So Hostile to State-Funded Art?
A personal, historical, and comparative consideration of using public money to support the humanities.
February 5, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Paul Ryan Says Only the Rich Enjoy the Arts. A New Study Just Proved Him Wrong.
November 16, 2012
Noreen Malone
The False Promise of Kickstarter
January 13, 2012
David Hajdu
Jazz, Age, and the NEA
August 3, 2011
Jed Perl
Put In Your Oar
January 25, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The RSC Goes Hog Wild
June 9, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Sharron Angle And Party Suicide
March 2, 2010
Jed Perl
Venice in Texas
January 13, 2010
Lydia DePillis
Meet the New GOP Centrists
February 20, 2006
The Editors
Standard and Poor
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Jonathan Chait
Illiberal Arts
July 8, 1967
David Dempsey
Life Among the Littles

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