Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh,

Feast Network. Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion Journal, provocatively asked,

how can one estimate the severity of a civilization's

addiction to pathological sentiments? Surely one measure, he asserted, is the extent to which

civilization attacks, repudiates, or otherwise undermines its key cultural achievements.

The template for what he calls such malevolently frivolous exercises in nihilistic disestablishment

is to seize upon some ostentatiously successful political or cultural endeavor, and then subjected to the

pressure of ideological inversion. This sort of narcissistic self-flagellation, he says,

typically makes up for its utter lack of historical accuracy with an abundance of nauseating politically correct smugness.

For several decades now, a particular target for this sort of progressive historical vandalism has has been Christopher Columbus.

The reputation of the Great Discoverer has been besmirched with accusations that he was, in fact,

an exploitive, Eurocentric, white supremacist, racist, and imperialist, guilty of genocide, ecoside, and epistemic violence,

all of which is demonstrably untrue, despite having been indelibly written into our current

historiography. A new edition of one of my favorite books that I've ever written

has just been released by Canon Press, in part to address such falsehoods. The Last Crusader

tells the remarkable story of Columbus, detailing his life, his achievements,

his discovery, his legacy, his worldview, his controversies, his failures, and his rightful

place in history. William de Breton, the 19th century essayist, declared that it ought to be a great

part of our object and business in life at once to unlearn what we have been taught amiss,

and only then to acquire the knowledge of better things.

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