Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made reining in the cultural sphere a core plank of his agenda.

Those efforts have included slashing federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); attempting to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in his image; and unleashing a relentless barrage of executive orders, attempted firings, and investigations targeting the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated museums. The campaign reached a fever pitch in July, when the White House released a 162-page report detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National Museum of American History. Two congressional hearings followed, in which lawmakers grilled the museum’s director, Anthea Hartig, over her perceived failure to uphold the institution’s mission.