The New York Times has been full of good news lately. A couple of days after Mr. Traub’s socialist fantasia appeared, the front page of the Arts section announced plans for a Museum of Sex, to be located at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street in Manhattan. The new institution—which is looking for a temporary home while waiting for its new building—is the brainchild of Daniel Gluck, whom the Times describes as a thirty-one-year-old “former product manager for a software company.” Mr. Gluck has been trying to found a Museum of Sex —devoted to “the history and evolution of human sexuality”—for three years. He had trouble incorporating as a non-profit institution, he said, because “the New York Board of Regents … said the term Museum of Sex made a mockery of the institution of a Museum.” Quite right, too, though these days such mockery is common enough. In any case, Mr. Gluc ...

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