In Culture Wars, Museums Become a Battleground

People visit the Smithsonian Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington on April 3, 2019. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo

Commentary

One of the epigraphs to the late Richard Pipes’s great book “The Russian Revolution” cites the Russian minister of justice in 1915, who said, “The paralytics of the government are struggling feebly, as if unwillingly, with the epileptics of the revolution.”