Are we really “remembering the Holocaust”?

Something felt different about this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Unlike in previous years, the 2018 UN observation came after a year in which groups that deny or belittle the slaughter of six million Jews have enjoyed a level of support not seen since before the Holocaust.

We now live in a time, as German chancellor Angela Merkel put it, when “no Jewish institution can exist without police protection, whether it is a school, a kindergarten or a synagogue.”

We Kansas Citians know that bet...