The Duty of Artists to Speak: Trump and Illegal Immigrants
One of the reasons I was attracted to the arts and culture as a young man was that—for someone with no wealth and no preexisting connections—it seemed like one of the only routes I could take to attain any voice in our culture. A public voice might be used for a wide variety of communications, from the silly to the sublime, the trivial to the weighty, all of which have value. It is the duty of artists to provide a good laugh, a good release, a good jam to dance to on the weekend but it is also the duty of artists to reflect the struggles of our time, both large and small.
