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Columbus



  • How Our Hero Columbus Has Fallen

    by Brian Regal

    "Humans seem to need to have heroes, but we’re often not sure what to do with them. We want them to embody high ideals, but they rarely do."



  • The Rap Against Christopher Columbus Statues Overlooks Their Origins

    by Jonathan Zimmerman

    The great achievement of the 20th-century United States was the integration of formerly excluded ethnics -- Italians, Irish, Jews, and others -- into full citizenship and equality. And the great tragedy was our failure to do the same for nonwhites, especially African Americans and Native Americans.



  • Santa Maria found - but recently looted

    "If the artefacts are still around, they are likely to be in a hidden collection of bits and bobs somewhere, utterly decontextualized."