But the ideological smog was so thick at Air and Space that disaster was bound to occur. Similar criticism comes in a new book by a Smithsonian anthropologist. The point is not that the curators were wrong about the Enola Gay. The obliteration of a nonstrategic city filled mostly with women and children raises some obvious moral problems. But the state and its employees are not supposed to tell us how to think or feel about it.
Nothing irritates the citizens more than being propagandized with their own tax money.
Given the ideological currents flowing through the museum, this issue will surely come up again and again until the curators get it right. Inc. All rights reserved.