NR Daily: The Kennedy Center Honors Reveal Why Trump Won

The Kennedy Center Honors isn't shy about proclaiming its importance. According to its website, getting tapped at its annual ceremony is the moral equivalent of a British knighthood or the French Legion d'Honneur. When the honors began in 1978, the point was to single out the most exemplary figures in American culture and give them their due in the same way that our allegedly more civilized European cousins do. Since then, the awards have shed the self-conscious tilt toward figures from the classical arts to become more of a pop-culture fest, but the faux pomp, usually validated by the presence of the president of the United States, remains the same ...

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The Kennedy Center Honors Reveal Why Trump Won Jonathan S. Tobin The Kennedy Center Honors isn't shy about proclaiming its importance. According to its website, getting tapped at its annual ceremony is the moral equivalent of a British knighthood or the French Legion d'Honneur. When the honors began in 1978, the point was to single out the most exemplary figures in American culture... READ MORE Masterpiece Cakeshop Case May Hinge on a Claim against Disparate Treatment Kevin Daley The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the case of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado who declined to create a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his deeply held religious... Putin Conspiracists Often Sound Envious Michael Brendan Dougherty The obsession with Vladimir Putin's supposedly decisive influence over events in the West, particularly the unwelcome ones, is spreading from America's political class outward. First it was... ADVERTISEMENT Student Protesters: Defending the First Amendment Is 'Violent' Katherine Timpf A group of students at Western Washington University used their own right to free speech to disrupt a pro–free-speech lecture — calling the idea of complete free speech "violent" — and... The New Math of 'Consensual Nonmonogamy' Alan J. Hawkins, Betsy VanDenBerghe, Lynae Barlow The equation starts out simply enough: 2+2+1=5. Julie and Joe are married, and so are William and Anna, but not Sayulita, all panelists appearing on a New York Times video called "Married,... Politics Then, Politics Now Jay Nordlinger Editor's Note: In the November 27 issue of National Review, we had a review by Jay Nordlinger of Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer. This week,... Overheated Rhetoric on Tax Reform Michael Tanner Even in a town where overheated rhetoric comes as naturally as breathing, the reaction to the Senate version of the Republican tax bill has been somewhat . . . unhinged. "Armageddon," House... ADVERTISEMENT The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 James D. Hornfischer "A masterful account of the barbaric last year of the Pacific War...The Fleet at Flood Tide is, quite simply, popular and scholarly military history at its best." - Victor Davis Hanson LEARN MORE Southern California Fires Christmas Shopping Season ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.