Must Read: Welsey Morris on the Culture Wars

At the risk of being problematic, YAS QUEEN.by Katie HerzogWelsey Morris Tommaso Boddi /Getty Images
Should art be a battleground for social justice? This is the question Wesley Morris asks in a recent essay, "The Morality Wars," in the New York Times Magazine's Culture Issue. It's a long, wide-ranging, and beautifully composed essay, and in it, Morris considers the Moment we are in right now and if we've entered a time when art can no longer be judged on its own merit instead of the creator's u