Use and Abuse

Every so often someone with a political agenda will invoke in tones of patient sweetness and reason the so-called lessons history as a cudgel with which to instruct those with an opposing political agenda about the errors of their ways. One interesting aspect of this phenomenon is that those who purport to correct the errors of others usually misstate the facts of history at least as egregiously as those whom they would instruct.

The one that has caught my attention most recently is "4 Huge Di...