NR Daily: A Monumental Folly

Editor's Note: The following piece originally appeared in City Journal. It is reprinted with permission here. If you're looking for a textbook example of the Washington swamp Donald Trump vowed to drain, the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial, designed by celebrity architect Frank Gehry and soon to be erected in the capital's monumental core, has plenty to offer: the dubious memorial competition Gehry won, the incompetent sponsoring commission's reliance on federal largesse rather than private donations, and pervasive official cluelessness about Gehry's ill-conceived, very expensive, and very unpopular design ...

June 13 2017

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