American Museums Filled with Indoctrination Messaging That Needs to Be Reversed

Congress must use its often-neglected power over the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents to remove Lonnie Bunch III, Anthea Hartig, and other of the museum’s leaders — that is, if it wants to reverse the capture of this national treasure. To be fair, it’s not as if these leaders seized the museums alone, by stealth overnight, as in some Hollywood movie.

Indeed, their thirst for leftist activism was why these men and women were thrust into their positions at the height of immense societal change in 2019–2020. To completely fix museums’ indoctrination problem, we must all reflect on how to fix the museum-industrial complex — the accrediting institutions, the funders, the history associations, the museum professions, and the art history departments that instruct them.

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Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

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Congress must use its often-neglected power over the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents to remove Lonnie Bunch III, Anthea Hartig, and other of the museum’s leaders — that is, if it wants to reverse the capture of this national treasure. To be fair, it’s not as if these leaders seized the museums alone, by stealth overnight, as in some Hollywood movie.

Indeed, their thirst for leftist activism was why these men and women were thrust into their positions at the height of immense societal change in 2019–2020. To completely fix museums’ indoctrination problem, we must all reflect on how to fix the museum-industrial complex — the accrediting institutions, the funders, the history associations, the museum professions, and the art history departments that instruct them.