My latest in PJ Media:
…At last we are seeing on a large scale the bitter fruit of the miseducation and propaganda that has been fed to American schoolchildren since the 1960s. They have been taught to hate their own land and people, hate their own country, culture, and heritage. The latest example of this disinformation is the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project,” which is the work of a “scholar” named Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones has claimed that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world,” that “Christopher Columbus and those like him were no different then [sic] Hitler,” and “the descendants of these savage people … continue to be bloodsuckers in our communities.”
No wonder the young people who have been fed these evil lies are tearing down statues, and gladdening the black hearts of Iranian ayatollahs. If we are going to survive this barbaric age as a free republic, there will need to be a thorough housecleaning of the educational system from top to bottom, with criticism of the United States and its founding and heroic figures that is fair and correct, and balanced by solid information about how America – because of those same figures — has been a beacon of freedom for the world, a haven for the oppressed, and much more about which every American should be proud and grateful.
This will be a long-term effort. It will not bear fruit right away. Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster is an attempt to make a beginning, to restore historical study to a sane, accurate, patriotic basis. Now is the time for all of us to study and become deeply familiar with American history, for there is no doubt that if we do not know what made America great, we will not be able to make it great again.
There is much more. Read the rest here.