The US government has mounted a coordinated repeal of the right to culture. As Anna Kornbluh, the author of “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism,” and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, a scholar of cultural institutions in the Americas and former Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress, argue in an opinion for Hyperallergic, “There is simply no other way to understand the underlying logic behind the rapid-fire dismantling of the Department of Education, the Public Broadcasting System, National Public Radio, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, along with the unprecedented defunding of universities, the censorship of museums and artists, the vehement attack on equal access to institutions, and the swift erosion of freedom of speech.” The right to culture has birthed some of the United States’ greatest wonders, and the people who enjoy that right come from all walks of life, across the polit...