What Conservatives Accidentally Get Right About Columbus Day

They say we're living in the world he made, and they're correct! They just think that's a good thing.

Oct 11, 2021

John Vanderlyn's 'The Landing of Columbus,' located in the U.S. Capitol.

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, which means it's also Columbus Day, which means it's also time for the ever-more-bizarre tradition of Annual Columbus Discourse. Both Columbus and the horrors he inspired have always been controversial, but he is now an increasingly surreal player in ou…

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