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Jennifer Lind: Fight at the Museum

Aug 7, 2026

America Worst vs America First

On the Blue Blaze substack, Government Professor Jennifer Lind explores the context behind the recent kerfuffle over signage at the Smithsonian. “What many Americans will see as a crisis is something else: people arguing, out loud, about their country’s story. This suggests not democratic decay, but strength,” she argues.

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