By: Culture Makers or Culture Warriors? | Bensonian

[...] Culture-Makers or Culture Warriors? (Part Three) Conservatives have, by and large, focused their energies on political action and the theoretical work necessary to undertake action.  The indirection of art, with its lack of moralizing and categorizing, strikes the pragmatic mind as being unedifying, and thus inessential.  Insofar as the great artists and writers of the past are admired, it is for their support of some idea, rather than for the complex, many-sided vision of their art. [...]