Michael R. Allen is a cultural and architectural historian who is coeditor of Peripheries: A Journal of Place and Position and a research fellow at the National Building Arts Center. He has taught at West Virginia University and Washington University in St Louis.
Donald Trump’s victory arch is so ugly and uninspired, so befitting his cynical, corrupt, tacky presidency, that it might actually offer us an opportunity to seriously consider something more befitting a just and democratic society.
Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern." Their failure to mobilize reveals how dependent liberal advocacy has become on the billionaires funding Trump's regime.
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