politics-museums-coronavirus-pandemic- b4d260745c8312d4607559dc804dffec> (11/19, Khalil) reports, "In response to rising COVID-19 infection numbers, the Smithsonian Institution is indefinitely shutting down operations at all its facilities, effective Monday and affecting seven museums, plus the National Zoo." The Washington

003 and as a member of the board of Cable One since July 2015. In his not-for-profit affiliations, Mr. Spoon was a member of the Board of Regents at the Smithsonian Institution (formerly Vice Chairman) and is now a member of the MIT Corporation, where he also serves as a member of the board of directors of edX (an online ed

d of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (iii) in the case of buildings under the jurisdiction, custody, and control of the Smithsonian Institution, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; or (iv) in the case of another public building for which an Executive agency has, by specific

less solipsistic and operationally more useful. Like A Universe from Nothing, this story also originated in a lecture I presented, in this case at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, which generated some excitement at the time, and as a result I was once again driven to elaborate upon the ideas I started to de