Denunciation

What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?

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Crashing and Burning the Drumpf Shuttle

Wilhelm Furtwangler, defending composer Paul Hindemith in November 1934, wrote he was also bringing into the open the whole question of interference by political zealots in Germany’s artistic life. ‘What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?’”

See also America then and now. Answer: We are become ruined, derelict, and empty.