Blight At the Museum

Culture Left-wing curators make exhibits of their own stupidity. You just can’t trust archaeologists anymore. Earlier this year, some claimed to have found the bones of Ivar the Boneless. It can’t have been him, then, can it? Dead Viking warlords aren’t the only ones having their remains dug up and rearranged into new and misleading forms. On July 4th, which I'm told is historically significant in some way or other, the Trump administration released a scathing new report on the politicization of museums. Called “Saving America’s Story,” the document reveals how the Smithsonian Institution—particularly its National Museum of American History—has, by the open admission of its director Anthea Hartig, endeavored to turn the preservation of the past into “a tool of social justice.” Hartig, as t