Last summer, Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post questioned whether the Kochs’ domination of arts philanthropy is morally or pragmatically tenable any longer.
“It’s increasingly clear that the Koch brothers’ climate campaign has had a larger moral and intellectual cost to our society. They have undermined a critical set of our most important human capacities, and some of the same ones that the arts are often thought to enhance.”
Short-term gain vs. long-term catastrophic cost:
“By actively promoting policies that will make the world more unstable, dangerous and unhealthy, the Kochs’ campaign to discredit climate science will make it much more difficult for the arts to compete for limited philanthropic largesse. And they have furthered a worldview — based on unreason and selfishness — that undermines the basic good things we assume the arts promote.”