Michael Linton is a writer on music and cultural topics. He contributed arts and culture criticism to The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2001, covering subjects ranging from the legacy of composer Aaron Copland to the state of Disneyland.
AT THE BASE of the flagpole that marks the beginning of Disneyland's Main Street in Anaheim, California, rests an unobtrusive plaque. It reads: "Disneyland is youth land. Here age relives fond memories of the past and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is…
In 1986 Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of the Arts and the House of Representatives presented him with the congressional Gold Medal, yet in the 1930s he had openly campaigned for Communist candidates and in 1953 was called before a Senate subcommittee and asked by Senator Joseph…
Kill PBS. Or at least kill the "public" part of it. That was a well-publicized plank in the Republican revolution of 1994.