Hiding George Washington Won’t Fix History, But This California School Is Trying Anyway
This debacle over historical artwork is a classic left versus left scenario: those valuing freedom of expression over everything else, against those valuing the rights of the offended over all.
Mayor In His Hometown Proposes Grinding Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Into The Dust
It is Thomas Jefferson who wrote the words that became a promissory note of freedom for all races that this nation cashed in its own blood.
General Stanley McChrystal On Leadership, Afghanistan, And Iconoclasm
Gen. Stanley McChrystal joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss famous leaders throughout history, the military, and more.
The Iconoclasts Come For George Washington
By removing its historic memorials to George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Christ Church is yielding to the relentless logic of identity politics.
Washington And Lee’s Christ Church To Obliterate Their Memorials Over Slave Ownership
To sit where George Washington sat is to keep his memory alive. So can only perfect men be honored? Can only the blameless be remembered?
Radio: Catalonia Independence, Iconoclasm, And Fishing In Alaska
Federalist Senior Contributors John Davidson And Megan Oprea join this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour from Austin, Texas.
How American Anarchy Parallels China’s Cultural Revolution
Both movements started on college campuses, with students who wanted to re-make history according to their own ideology.
Vandals Are Destroying Monuments Because They’ve Been Taught To Hate America
It appears Islamists have something in common with statue vandals besides an ideology that justifies political violence and a rabid hatred of free expression: the desecration of historic monuments.
If We Topple Every Statue Of An Imperfect Person They Must All Come Down
We are approaching levels of secular iconoclasm previously unknown in the West. All humans are flawed. Eventually, all of us will be disowned by our grandchildren.
Lessons From History’s Iconoclasts On How To Handle Controversial Public Monuments Without Vandalism
State and local political leaders, over many years, have failed to create a positive public consensus for reasonable action. That has led to our current explosive situation.
Here’s A List Of All The Monuments Liberals Want To Tear Down So Far
This list is by no means comprehensive, as calls for the removal of historical monuments have been rapidly cropping up all over the country.
There Are Good Reasons To Consider Removing Confederate Memorials From Our Public Squares
America is supposed to be ‘one nation, indivisible.’ But this week, we’ve seen that Confederate memorials are splitting us further and further apart.
Davidson: The Left’s Impulse To Tear Down Confederate Statues Is Like Mao’s Cultural Revolution
‘These are tactics that are well-known. You start by tearing down statues and burning books, and eventually you go after people.’
It’s Time To Let Collectors Like Hobby Lobby Import Artifacts To The West
Thanks to jihadis, most ancient artifacts are almost certainly safer in the Smithsonian or the British Museum than they are in Baghdad or Mosul.
Why You Can Expect Increased Violence When The Left Is Out Of Power
Until we begin seeing each other as our flesh and blood neighbors with names and not through the archetypical lenses of media, the political violence will only heighten.
What I Learned When The Nazis Came To Charlottesville
A bargan-basement Nuremberg in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a warning about the attempt to create a permanent new racial conflict in American politics.
New Orleans Is Wrong To Remove Its Confederate Monuments
The progressive impulse to purge public spaces of Confederate monuments isn’t about inclusion and tolerance, it’s about politics and power.
Erasing History Makes Us More Likely To Repeat Its Mistakes
The Confederacy’s destructive purpose does not mean that we should snuff out all of its memorialization now.
Don’t Erase Nathan Bedford Forrest From U.S. History
Perhaps the Memphis City Council, which wants to take down reminders of KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest, needs a reminder that people are complex.
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