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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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Justin Shubow of the National Civics Arts Society on the importance of classicism and aesthetics in America.
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0:51.7 | Today, alas, I'm not. Actually, no, I got that exactly backwards. I'm very excited to do the program today because I have as my guest, someone I'm only just meeting now. His name is Justin Shubo, and I will allow Justin to help explain to you my audience why I'm excited to talk to him. Justin, first of all, |
1:14.5 | welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. Well, listen, you let's see if we can help my audience |
1:23.9 | understand because I didn't give you an introduction. What is your current role? In other |
1:32.5 | words, you were, you're interested in the arts and architecture. And the more I read, the more I |
1:38.8 | said, I can't wait to talk to him. But I want to help my audience understand that with you. So |
1:43.0 | who are you? You know what I'm saying? |
1:45.0 | Like when somebody says, well, who are you? What are you doing? First of all, you are up to be the |
1:51.1 | chairman of the national endowment for the arts, which is amazing. And I want to talk to you |
1:58.0 | about that. So that kind of tells people about you. But just tell us more about your background. I know, for example, Blackmark in your book, |
2:05.8 | you attended Yale Law School. Shame on you. What else? Well, I run the National Civic |
2:13.9 | Art Society. It's a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington that promotes the |
2:20.4 | classical tradition in public art and architecture. We see that tradition as being unsurpassed |
2:28.4 | in American history. And we can talk about how it goes back to the founding fathers who consciously chose classicism for the core buildings of government in the new nation. |
2:39.0 | But we advocate for classicism in our public buildings, whether that's federal courthouses, also things like train stations. |
2:48.0 | We're interested in the design of Penn Station in New York, for instance. |
2:52.7 | But also our monuments and memorials, most of which have been very bad for decades. |
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