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What Can Artists Do To Effectively Oppose Trump? Not Much – But That’s Not Really Their Job

ISSUES Posted: December 8, 2016 9:03 am

Adam Kirsch: “One illusion that will be particularly painful to part with is the idea that high culture and the arts have any effective power in American life. … The central role that writers and artists have played in public debate and popular culture is a thing of the past, but that role was always secondary to their real purpose.”

ISSUES Published: 12.06.16

Read the story in Slate Published: 12.06.16

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