Category: Culture

Will Arts in America Go the Way of Bud Light?

Commentary There are many reasons to worry about the future of arts venues in America. In the boom times before lockdowns, they had grown accustomed to putting on display every eccentricity. Funding was plentiful and audiences over time learned to put up with it. After all, everyone knows that the world of high-end art and…


When a Culture Loses Touch With Its Mythos

In her wonderful book, “The Battle for God,” Karen Armstrong, drawing on the work of other eminent scholars, introduces us to a central reason why there has been a resurgence of religious fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the modern world. Indeed, her book points out some intriguing and insightful parallels between all three…


[PREMIERING 7:00PM ET] This Is the Real Reason Companies Are Going Woke

Woke culture has blanketed the world. Companies are getting behind it as corporate policy. Schools are parading it in front of children. Governments are standing behind it and protecting it through law. But is it something actually embraced by the average person, or is it an agenda being manipulated to appear more popular than it…


[PREMIERING NOW] This Is the Real Reason Companies Are Going Woke

Woke culture has blanketed the world. Companies are getting behind it as corporate policy. Schools are parading it in front of children. Governments are standing behind it and protecting it through law. But is it something actually embraced by the average person, or is it an agenda being manipulated to appear more popular than it…


This Is the Real Reason Companies Are Going Woke

Woke culture has blanketed the world. Companies are getting behind it as corporate policy. Schools are parading it in front of children. Governments are standing behind it and protecting it through law. But is it something actually embraced by the average person, or is it an agenda being manipulated to appear more popular than it…


The Cultural and Economic Disaster of New York City

Commentary The New York Philharmonic’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s 9th Symphony, brilliantly conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, lived up to the piece’s immense reputation. Written in 1909, it is the last gasp of the Old World wrecked by the Great War. It left the audience in tears of melancholy reflection. The ceremonial and traditional silence following…


Oregon Senators Walk Out Over Contentious Abortion, Gender-Transition, and Gun-Related Bills

A walkout by most Republicans and two independent members of the Oregon Senate starting May 3 delayed action by the majority Democrats on bills related to restricting access to guns, and increasing access to abortion, and gender-transition services. Because Oregon’s legislative rules require a two- thirds quorum to conduct business, the session ground to a…


To Save Culture, Artists Must Value Craft Once Again

Commentary Many lament the collective decline of critical thought among young people, not just here in Australia but throughout the Western world. It seems to me that there are a variety of contributing factors to this very real crisis, not least of all social media, an agent which has significantly impaired the concentration of so…


Alexander Adams: ‘We Should Be Unashamed to Protect and Promote High Culture’ | British Thought Leaders

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Alexander Adams, artist, art critic and cultural commentator. Alexander’s latest book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism’ examines the origins, aims and spread of artivism. He says this fusion of art and activism is putting the very existence of Britain’s cultural institutions at risk. …


Four Legs Good, Two Legs Cosmetic

Commentary Some people in Hong Kong think that cultural issues are apolitical. Unfortunately, it is not true. The seemingly neutral treatment of Hong Kong culture in the secondary school history curriculum, for example, “the coexistence and interaction of Chinese and foreign culture,” glossed over trends such as the increasing westernization from the 1970s onwards. A…