This clip from FOX Nation's new docuseries "American Requiem" looks at how our culture has chosen the ugly, depraved, and insane over the beautiful, upright, and rational, with reference to Thomas Cole's infamous series of paintings, "The Course of Empire."
Art critic and publisher of The New Criterion Roger Kimball says: "In the end, Cole's lesson is that such decline is a matter of choice, not fate. That is the message and the moral of Requiem."
