Don’t you think we need a whole new, stronger set of arguments to explain why culture is politics? The arguments that worked early on just don’t land anymore. Or maybe they were never explained clearly in the first place. When we say things like: “Culture and language are about national security,” or “Identity equals territory — the territory of people who choose to identify as Ukrainian” — I feel like those messages haven’t really been spelled out or repeated enough, especially in schools. It’s not enough to just hang flags and portraits of heroes. We need to show the long arc of our struggle. This isn’t our first war with russia. It’s not the second, or even the third. Muscovy’s, and later russia’s, imperial ambitions have been a threat to Europe for centuries. But I don’t think we’ve done enough over the years to explain that russia has always been a danger to Europe