They're Turning the Friggin' Kennedy Center Straight

President Donald Trump announced that the Kennedy Center’s days of hosting drag shows were over.

LZ Granderson: The arts are part of the diffuse progressive patronage system, and it doesn’t do us any good to pretend otherwise.

He says if he wants to move the needle, Trump needs to throw all personal star power behind his administration’s arts agenda.

Granderson asks: What kind of programming would feature a patriotic, patriotic right-wing opera?.

But regardless of the specifics, Trump ’s acknowledgement that the cultural is political is real progress. The American Mind presents a range of perspectives. Views are writers’ own and do not necessarily represent those of The Claremont Institute . The American Mind is a publication of the Claremont Institute , a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to restoring the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. Interested in supporting our work? Gifts to the Claremont Institute are tax-deductible..