[contextly_auto_sidebar] ONE of the key issues which underlies this blog and the book which inspired it is the role of public funding in the arts. I hate to give the end away, but one of the concluding points of Culture Crash is the need for more funding in the US, and something closer to a British or European model. (This is hardly an unpopular opinion among my colleagues.) Similarly, I am … [Read more...]
Pres Obama’s cultural policy
[contextly_auto_sidebar] LIKE a lot of Americans, I'm sorry to see President Obama go. But in at least two areas, he was a real disappointment. One was his gutless response -- or lack of response -- to the housing crisis, which involved mostly looking the other way and proposing toothless acronyms while banks crushed homeowners struggling with the Great Recession. His second great failure … [Read more...]