Caviare to the general
New at Reason: Dana Gioia may have saved the National Endowment for the Arts, but wouldn't he have been better off destroying it? Jim Henley offers a portrait of the artist as an apparatchik.
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Personally, I'm more inclined to give money to an arts organization if it *doesn't* get NEA money.
But that's why I'm not in charge of a big foundation to give lots of money away. Well, one reason.