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A federal judge ruled Thursday that DOGE's cancellation of more than $100M in NEH grants was unconstitutional (AP) — a win, and a largely moot one. While the case worked its way through court, the administration eliminated more than half the NEH staff, terminated 97% of grants, and fired 22 of 26 advisory board members (Chronicle of Higher...
This Week's Highlights:
The question running through this week's stories isn't whether cultural institutions are in trouble. It's who gets to decide what they're for. At the Kennedy Center, a former staffer describes being told to "get rid of everything" in the permanent collection (The Atlantic). In Paris, more than 100 authors walked out of the storied publisher Grasset after...
