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Art & democracy: UW prof’s book shows why they go together

Even with the Iowa caucuses less than a month away, you don’t hear much in presidential candidates’ stump speeches and broadcast debates about the arts.

That’s not the way that Caroline Levine thinks it should be.

Levine, who teaches English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published “Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts.”