NCAS President Justin Shubow Appears on the Podcasts of Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, and the Daily Signal

Justin Shubow, Victor Davis Hanson, Jack Fowler

In December 2024, National Civic Art Society President Justin Shubow was interviewed about public architecture, monuments, and the future of the National Endowment for the Arts on the podcast of esteemed historian Victor Davis Hanson, which was co-hosted by Jack Fowler. You can watch/listen at Rumble, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

Shubow also appeared on 10 Blocks, the podcast of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal magazine. He was interviewed by John Hirschauer, the publication's associate editor. Among other things, they discussed the future of the National Endowment for the Arts under the second Trump administration. You can listen at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Manhattan Institute's website (which includes a transcript). 

In addition, Shubow appeared on The Daily Signal's Sitdown podcast with Bradley Devlin. You can watch/listen YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Devlin published a write-up of the interview. To quote:

“Winston Churchill gave a speech on the rebuilding of the House of Commons after it had been bombed in World War II, and he famously said, ‘we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.’” Shubow continued. “He was a statesman and he understood the role of architecture for the body politic.”

Churchill understood, in Shubow’s opinion, that “it’s no small matter for a government to support art and architecture that redounds to the greatness of the country. This is something that Theodore Roosevelt talked about, who was actually quite interested in art and architecture. He said a national greatness that does not include art and artistic and architectural greatness is only a malformed greatness.”