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Episode length: 39m
James Smithson left his fortune to America so that she could “increase and diffuse knowledge.” Smithsonian leadership now uses tax dollars to diffuse a Marxist distortion of American history instead. We need a course correction: new board members, new leadership, and exhibits that tell the whole truth—our shared inheritance—without teaching visitors to hate their country.
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