Firing Line Friday: Government and the Arts

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     Should the Federal government subsidize art and the humanities? From subsidizing it as an emplopyment scheme in the 1930s to funding it for the sake of supporting transgressive movements the 1970s, this question hasn’t been without controversy. Let us look back fifty years ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ronald Berman discussed the question of government and the arts.

     Until next Friday.

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