Abstract New School professor and semiotician Marshall Blonsky moderated the series, “The Culture Elite,” during the Spring 1993 semester as part of the Vera List Center’s Art and Politics lecture program. Guests included talk show host Charlie Rose, French cultural ambassador Annie Cohen-Solal, art critic and cultural commentator Anthony Haden-Guest, journalist and novelist David Ignatius, sociologist Richard Sennett, and journalist and disability rights advocate John Hockenberry. The collection...