Every so often the question of culture on the Right comes center stage. There is a round of takes and pleas for more money and high-minded disputations about the nature of aesthetics and so on and so forth before the topic recedes into the background while more pressing political questions get their turn.
Spencer Klavan’s recent essay on the subject has brought the culture question back into the spotlight, and so here we are. Though it may seem like these rounds of debate do little more than sustain yet further debate, at the expense of actually making art, from my perch in the world of literature and publishing it appears to me we are moving in the right direction. The culture question is increasing in salience. Consciousness is being raised. And little by little, the money is starting to flow.
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