Culture and Democracy: Social and Ethical Issues in Public Support for the Arts and Humanities Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Arts and Public Policy	27
3	Sliding Toward a Diminished Culture	41
4	The State of National Cultural Policy	47
5	The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Arts Subsidy in a Multicultural Society	59
6	The Public Interest in Public Culture	67
7	Rethinking the Assumptions, Reassessing the Outcomes: Reflections on Public Arts Support	89
8	"One if by Land, Two if by Sea"	101
9	The Constitution and Public Funding of the Arts: An Uneasy Alliance	115
10	Culture and Oligarchy	131
11	Beware of the Hijackers!	139
12	Cultural Policy in Latin America	155
13	Culture and the French Nation	161
14	Shoulder to Fingertip: Arm's Length and Points Between in Canadian Cultural Policy	169
15	Christianity, Copyright, and Censorship in English-Speaking Culture	181
16	Artists, Humanists, and Society: Why Conservatives Have the Wrong Answers to the Right Questions While Liberals Bark up the Wrong Philosophical Tree	201
17	Art and Statesmanship: A Moral Paradox and Parable	209
18	Government Support for Unconventional Works of Art	217
19	The Right to Offend and the Power to Provoke: The Role of Controversy in American Art	223
20	The Social Responsibility of Artists	239
21	Arresting Images	249
22	Popular Culture, Political Culture, Public Culture	261
	About the Contributors	277