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« Modernism, like liberalism, is concerned with progress. Like liberalism, too, it can then be attacked as alien, haughty, pushing solutions foreign to the needs and tastes of an imagined stolid majority, good citizens, real people, made powerless, even victimized, by cultural flux. But if modern forms are tainted by elitism then classicism is tainted by its own associations, its use and misuse in the last century as the preferred language of fascism. » 
To be read along with this Paul Goldberger piece in Vanity Fair. Here’s contemporary architecture criticism (along with contemporary political writing), revisiting and re-fighting the battles of the 1930s. Here’s to the future.
(But really — an Eisenhower memorial ?)
