THE GHOST OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT AND NON-TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS, as New York magazine comes full circle, nearly a half century later. New York Magazine: White Audiences Must ‘Examine Their Racist Failings:’

Relics of the past should be preserved, for the sake of history, art, and future generations. But the current frenzy to demand removal of (and in some cases actually violently destroy) Confederate monuments, and even American monuments threatens to erase large swaths of American history — noble and deplorable alike.

The arts are certainly not immune to the hysteria. In response to a theater in Tennessee cancelling a showing of Gone With the Wind, because of its “insensitivity,” New York Magazine’s Vulture published a piece calling the film, “a cinematic monument to the Confederacy.” However, Angelica Jade Bastien, the essayist, argued that the film should in fact be preserved. Why? “When watching Gone With the Wind, white audiences today who are willing to examine their racist failings must also examine how they specifically propagate the mythology that upholds white supremacy,” she reasoned.

Perhaps by holding lavish Park Avenue fundraisers to assuage their guilt, with the funds from elite leftists going to chicly radical organizations…