Smithsonian Institution must be even

President Donald Trump is right. The Smithsonian Institution is out of control, and our heritage is under assault.

The Smithsonian’s 19 museums and galleries in the Washington area are gems. But in recent years, they have peddled a relentlessly negative vision of American history that prioritizes grievance politics over historical accuracy.

For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” asserts that “societies including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege and disenfranchisement,” dismissing race as a mere “human invention” while promoting the idea that sculpture advanced “scientific racism.”

This narrative is based on what’s called critical theory , a form of analysis