P.J. O’Rourke at Chicago’s Field Museum

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The Field Museum of Natural History, that is. He checked out the new permanent exhibit, “The Ancient Americas.” His take? “The savages and barbarians are the museum’s curators,” he writes in The Weekly Standard. “They plunder history, ravage archaeology, do violence to intelligence, and lay waste to wisdom, faith, and common sense.” (Via Arts & Letters Daily)

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