June 22, 2001

Cultural Policy and the Art of Commerce

By SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN

The first 100 days of the George W. Bush administration saw few cultural salvos. The nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney general brought gasps. But, despite being outed as an apologist for the Confederacy, the former senator immediately declared a cultural détente, pledging not to be the second coming of Ed Meese. Counterparts of William Bennett and Lynne Cheney, the cultural pit bulls from the two previous Republican administrations, have been noticeably absent from this

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