Hostage Culture, Now With Fencing

Good Afternoon,The Kennedy Center is closed, fenced, and flashing “Emergency alert” where the show listings used to be (Washington Post). The president says it gets “ripped down” unless his name goes on it (ABC News), and photographers caught him aboard Air Force One studying a poster reading “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” (The New York Times). The Atlantic calls it a shakedown: the leverage isn’t law, it’s the board’s affection for the institut