As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?

The Ultimate Fighting ring had not yet been erected on the White House lawn. The National Mall had not yet been repaved into an IndyCar race track for the Freedom 250. But the entertainment programming of America 250, the semiquincentennial celebration of the birth of a nation, was nevertheless well underway. Banners three stories tall with Donald Trump’s menacing portrait were being stretched accross federal office buildings around the Mall, including the Department of Justice. A sim