{"id":120573,"date":"2018-01-24T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=120573"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:16:15","slug":"arthur-millers-sassy-defense-nea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/arthur-millers-sassy-defense-nea\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Miller\u2019s Sassy Defense of the NEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_120642\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/miller-working-1-e1516656755778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120642\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/miller-working-1-e1516656755778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Miller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>In the spring of 1995, then House Speaker Newt Gingrich\u00a0addressed supporters of federal funding for the arts and humanities, asserting that Arthur Miller had written\u00a0some of the most significant plays in American theater without receiving\u00a0governmental aid. The first page of Miller\u2019s reply, originally published in\u00a0<\/em>The Nation<em>, appears below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16_300dpi-e1516400793474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16_300dpi-e1516400793474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Letter courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.hrc.utexas.edu\/fasearch\/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00786&amp;kw=arthur%20miller\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Ransom Archive<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the spring of 1995, then House Speaker Newt Gingrich\u00a0addressed supporters of federal funding for the arts and humanities, asserting that Arthur Miller had written\u00a0some of the most significant plays in American theater without receiving\u00a0governmental aid. 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