Should Dems Win, Ballroom Must Be the First Thing to Go

The arch could still be stopped in its tracks; the ballroom maybe not. Because it is an affront to everything classical and tasteful in DC’s monuments, it should be rapidly  torn down and the East Wing of the White House restored.

Will the Dems and a new Congress have the balls to do this? Will the Trumpian monstrosities prevail? Oliver Wainright, The Guardian’s architecture critic, last month had some pregnant thoughts on the mutilation of Washington that must not continue. Continue reading “Should Dems Win, Ballroom Must Be the First Thing to Go”

All that glitters is not gold.

Matt Ford (TNR): The raw spectacle of Trump tearing a hole in the White House to hang out with his rich friends is already a potent symbol of his presidency—almost ham-fisted in a way, as if it were drawn by a third-rate political cartoonist for a fourth-rate newspaper. At every level, the entire project may be the perfect summation of what his administration has been like for the country. Continue reading “All that glitters is not gold.”