An essay by Roberto Bedoya, author of 'U.S. Cultural Policy: Its Politics of Participation, Its Creative Potential', in which he argues for fair and just cultural policy practices. Democracy in the USA, he argues, is being tested by a politics of resource and position that defies fairness and justice: 'The hubris with which citizens are being told not to question government policies will not redeem the guilty from their failures to act or absolve them from the responsibilities that a just democracy demands.' The essay is a call for dialogue and deliberation on art and democracy, and how art and dialogue infuse our functions as citizens in the social action of policy making and the social action of imagination. Read the remarks HERE.