Eight years ago Pat Buchanan was calling a “cultural war” in the United States. But this presidential campaign “the blistering cultural issues of the early ’90s – federal funding of the arts, naughty pictures, tart-tongued, disrobed performers – are on today’s back burners. The anti-arts, far-right-wing Buchanan voice lost. They thought it would be easy, the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts based on arguments of pornography and blasphemy. And they lost.” – Philadelphia Inquirer 10/15/00