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Imagines what Alexis de Toqueville, in his analysis of the growth of democracy in the US, might have thought about the contemporary relationship between the press & the arts. De Toqueville's comparison of the US & French democratic enterprises is reviewed, focusing on the practice of the arts & arts education. Regarding the extension of opportunities for artistic expression to the masses, Toqueville argued that art became trivialized, pursued for utilitarian & monetary reasons rather than its inherent beauty. These views are applied to recent controversies surrounding support by the US government to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). K. Hyatt Stewart