Must We Burn George Washington?

Should some subjects be off-limits for the good of humanity?

Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

History can be a very strange place. The further back we go, the odder things seem to our modern sensibilities.

Incidentally, the further back we go, the less attached everyone is to long-standing historical narratives. Almost no one cares if the earliest kings of ancient Egypt hailed from an advanced African civilization…