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...This California contingent’s program of challenging tax-exempt institutions that visibly backed Proposition 8—including Mormon, Catholic and Orthodox Jewish religious organizations and groups like the Knights of Columbus??is a deserved one; these institutions have a responsibility not to lobby and fundraise substantially for any political cause, let alone the dubious one in question...
...Columbus. “Well,” he said with confidence, “his ships were the Niña, the Pinta, and the Mayflower…” I told him I didn’t think the Mayflower was one of the ships on Columbus??s voyage to America. Then I asked him what Columbus did once he got to America. “He met some Indians and the Indians died,” my brother replied. Perhaps this answer has something to do with the way my parents raised...
...Columbus Day was made a national holiday in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904. John F. Kennedy ’40 revived it in 1963 to generate enthusiasm for space research with the proclamation: “we continue to honor Columbus?? daring as we search out the far reaches of space and of human possibility.” It is only in the past two decades that indigenous peoples and revisionist historians have objected to the celebration of Columbus Day, calling attention to the less-than-glorious eradication of the Indians that began when Columbus...
...takes time for cultural attitudes to change, and even more time for history books to be rewritten and educational methods changed. But the vague, ambivalent history lesson children receive today is unacceptable. They should learn more than the names of two of Columbus??s ships. They should learn the truth: that Columbus came to steal and conquer, not to explore and discover. That a place cannot be discovered when people are already living there. That Columbus was responsible for the death of an estimated 8 million Indians in the Caribbean alone. Though we may be ashamed...
...Zakaria breaks the Westernized lens through which we too often view history, illuminating the Chinese history that our high school textbooks weren’t required to elaborate on. I had never heard of explorer Zheng He, whose gargantuan fleets of colossal ships in 1405 were superior to Christopher Columbus??s almost a century after. I was fascinated by Zakaria’s account of communist politician Deng Xiaoping’s speeches about economic reform in the 1950s that pointed China away from the elusive rhetoric of communism and toward more practical economic policy. Even more interesting...