The New Cultural Paradigm

We’ve moved into a new era in the culture, writes Frank Rich. “In post-9/11 New York, it’s not those tired 20th-century battles about pornography and blasphemy that draw blood. The new culture wars often spring from 9/11 itself, starting with the future, aesthetic and otherwise, of ground zero.” So here’s “the leading front of the culture war: can architecture, commerce and artistic entrepreneurship (a new City Opera? a Museum of Freedom sponsored by American Express?) so quickly bind the gravest wound in New York’s modern memory? Officially, we keep being told, the answer is yes…”