Even in the ‘90s it was clear that, for the right-wing political elite and their enablers, the canon was something to be fetishized but not actually read.
Essay by Jonah Siegel makes an interesting point: if you hold that critiquing the canon is a mode of resistance to the powers that be, you must grapple with the fact that *our* elites no longer go to art museums, see plays, attend film festivals, or read books. Moreover, they hate the people who do.
