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Chilling Tales
Kopkind, Andrew | May 2, 1994 issue

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However much the "politics of meaning" enriches the U.S. Bill Clinton family's discourse, it seems to be excluded from the administration's practice. Clinton's appointment of decent liberals to head both the arts and the humanities endowments has not hindered the Justice Department from pursuing deplorably illiberal policies in alliance with right-wing politicians and fundamentalist scolds. The administration's attempt to appease the legions of decency in the N.E.A. case hardly represents a major assault on free speech and a liberated culture. It's easy to blame the repressive right for these acts of cultural terrorism, but the zealots are only doing what comes naturally to them.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; GOVERNMENT policy; SUBVERSIVE activities; CULTURE; UNITED States
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