Thursday, June 4, 2026

The Ugly Library

At Breitbart, someone compares Barack Obama's Presidential Library to a Klingon Prison. That's an apt analogy. 

COTTonLINE readers will remember I have compared it to the alien space ship in the Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig 2011 film Cowboys and Aliens. You can see my references with photos here and here

Whatever your analogy, the Obama library is a prime example of brutalist design. It is the antithesis of elegance. 

Perhaps that is the point. It wouldn't surprise me if post-racialist history treats the Obama presidency as almost as bad for the country as that of Woodrow Wilson.