AuthorTom Piatak

I believe that the antidote to statue-toppling is exposure to real history. I make the case in my column in the latest issue of Chronicles. You may read the column here:

It takes a special kind of stupid to single out for removal from Capitol Hill’s Statuary Hall a statue of a man widely regarded as an exemplary human being, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did just that when she burbled that Even when we select figures to tell the stories of colonized places, it is the colonizers and settlers whose stories are told — and virtually no one else. Check out...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC to friend and foe, recently bemoaned the fact that so many of the statues found on Capitol Hill are representations of the most disfavored segment of humanity during this season of Wokeness, white males. AOC doesn’t beat around the bush in voicing her disdain: the problem with the statues is the race and sex of those they represent, not what they did. Indeed...

So Barack Obama has emerged to condemn the President and, by implication, those who voted for him, to great media acclaim. Obama is not just another self-professed servant of the people who grew to be phenomenally rich in politics. Or a supposed victim of racism who would today be a little known law professor somewhere if it were not for both blacks and whites voting for him for strictly racial...