This Week’s Highlights:The Kennedy Center closed its doors this week, its board voting to shut down indefinitely after a presidential phone call and weeks of pressure to put his name on the building (The New Republic). Philip Kennicott made the point that deserves attention: this was arguably the country’s most authentically populist arts center, caricatured as elitist by the man starving it (Washington Post). The Wall Street Journal’s remedy for such capture — privatize