Public monuments are the story we tell about ourselves. They shouldn’t aggrandize a living leader.

In a glass case on the ground floor of the Kansas Statehouse is a 3-foot plaster model of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. The model is the work of sculptor J.H. Mahoney, who in 1891 won a design contest to translate the spirit of the state into art. The model is Mahoney’s vision, in […]