Monumental Correctness: The New FDR Memorial

It used to be, as the New York Times has nostalgically pointed out, that our monuments came in three easy-to-choose styles. There was Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument), traditional classic (the Jefferson Memorial), and standard equestrian (St. Gaudens’s William Tecumseh Sherman). But in the age of postmodernism, the old monuments won’t do. They seem dated, if not trite.

The problem is that there is no consensus on what to substitute for the monument design we have r...