An artist and American disunity - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

Peggy Noonan, "Republicans Need Artists, Not Economists," Wall Street Journal

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An old order ended in 2016. To help the new one take shape requires an ability to see things whole.

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What might an artist see as the major need and priority for America right now? Keep this country together. Keep it up and operating and give it a sense of peace with itself. The crisis is our increasing disunity, and the thinning of a shared sense of the national dream. ...