David A. Smith, on the beginnings of the National Endowment for the Arts and the capacity of the arts in a democracy for combatting atomistic individualism

Kiku Adatto, on how images, words, and ideas interact in a visually saturated culture

Kiku Adatto, on how the image of a person’s face in a photograph has the capacity for intimate representation of inner personhood

Elvin T. Lim, on how presidential speeches have been dumbed down for decades, and why presidents like it