The always funny and incisive Spencer Klavan wrote a salvo recently at The American Mind on the perennial problem of “conservative art,” in which he argues that this body of work has a cringe problem—in no small part because conservatives have terrible taste.
He’s right. But it’s not just that: there’s also a bigger structural problem. Klavan says “art,” but in much of the essay the material to which he refers are the products of mass-market consumer pop culture: TV sitcoms, cinema, and so on. And the problem for “conservative” versions of such media are that they are doomed from the outset, for the media they rely on to propagate is progressive by definition.
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