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Reviving the bard
Longtime readers of The New Criterion will recall that in years past we often had occasion to criticize the National Endowment for the Arts. Lurching from a demotic populism, on the one hand (Elvis Presley, folk art, ...), to the darker precincts of the transgressive "cutting-edge" (Robert Mapplethorpe, Andreas Serrano, ...), the NEA was an agency in search of its soul.
No doubt legitimate questions can be raised about whether the federal government should be directly involved in supporting the arts at all. We suspect that a good case can be made that that task is better handled privately. But if we are going to have direct taxpayer ...