Jim Leach’s tension
While the National Endowment for the Arts has attracted attention as a propaganda arm of the Obama administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities has so far escaped such attention. The new chairman of the NEH is Republican former Rep. Jim Leach. Leach supported Obama during the campaign and must have had dreams [...]
Freedom of speech personified
Bruce Cole is the president of the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge, the first museum and education center dedicated to teaching the story of the American Revolution. He is also the art historian who served as the pre-Obama worship chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Last month the Wall Street [...]
Rocco’s Modern Life
Rocco Landesman is President Obama’s handpicked chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Last week he gave the keynote address to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Those of us concerned about the politicization of life and art in the Age of Obama will not be consoled by a reading of [...]
Jim Leach’s bridge to nowhere
While the National Endowment for the Arts has attracted attention as a propaganda arm of the Obama administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities has so far escaped such attention. Have we missed something?
The new chairman of the NEH is former Republican Rep. Jim Leach. Leach supported Obama during the campaign and must [...]
Barnard Chapin on Glenn Back
Bernard Chapin calls Glenn Back “A man for his time” and posits If Beck is detrimental to the conservative cause, why does the left expend so much energy trying to destroy him?:
My first impression of the host of the blockbuster Fox News program
that bears his name was that, despite its obvious content value, Beck’s
hyper-emotive, overly [...]
The art of corruption
Mike De Heus urges readers to visit the site of National Endowment for the Arts hover over Resources, click Health Insurance and check out the following statement: “Health care reform is a critical issue for the arts community. At this moment we have a unique opportunity to improve our quality of life by demanding affordable [...]
