Press

David A. Smith has written a thoughtful, informed, and nonpartisan history of one of the most tortuous areas of American cultural life: the proper place of government support of the arts. An excellent and clarifying contribution to an issue that generally receives more obfuscation than insight.

— Roger Kimball, author of Art's Prospect, The Rape of the Masters, Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, and other books

Dec 21, 2008
– St Louis Today Review

Additional Articles and Columns by the Author

Mar 19, 2010
– Waco Tribune
Nov 13, 2009
– The Weekly Standard
Jul 12, 2009
– Waco Tribune
Jun 11, 2009
– Wall Street Journal
May 18, 2009
– Dallas Morning News
Mar 14, 2009
– Austin American–Statesman
Feb 02, 2009
– Dallas Morning News
Jan 24, 2009
– Wall Street Journal
Jan 14, 2009
– Waco Tribune

Audio Interviews with the Author

Sep 22, 2009
– Conversation with WBAP Radio host Mark Davis in Dallas.