Smithsonian under fire: Trump orders an ideological purge

"For someone who claims to abhor censorship, Donald Trump sure has a funny way of showing it," said Issie Lapowsky in Vanity Fair. In his latest attempt to police thought in America, the president issued an executive order last week that aims to control museum exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and re-erect any statues or monuments that have been removed from federal property for reasons he disapproves.

The order, titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," assigns Vice...