Suggestion for Nicholas Kristoff, the moonbat, er, genius who penned the op-ed:
Please read: Henny Penny, Chicken Little, and The Sky is Falling.
And hurry! When President Trump’s budget passes, it will be too late to read.
Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof suggested in a new op-ed that if President Trump’s budget proposal, which eliminates funding for federal arts programs, were to pass, fewer people would read and democratic principles would suffer….
“The world has been transformed over the last 250 years by what might be called a revolution of empathy driven by the humanities,” Kristof wrote. “Previously, almost everyone (except Quakers) accepted slavery and even genocide. …What tamed us was, in part, books.”
He went on to cite Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty (1877) as examples of literature that made Americans more empathetic, though both books were published nearly 100 years before the National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities were established….
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