The Male Animal :: SteynOnline
Last week, in my look back at the movie version of the musical 1776, I mentioned learning, well into adulthood, that much of what I’d been told about American history wasn’t true.
To be more specific, I found out that that left’s narrative about America was largely libellous. That is, it fit the legal definition of “malice”: Knowing information to be false but printing it anyhow, to further a grudge or agenda.
For instance: Everything I thought I knew about the Scopes Monkey Trial, an event used to ridicule American evangelicals for close to a century, was wrong.
Joseph McCarthy was (mostly) right.
The “research” touted by liberal heroes like Betty Friedan, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Rachel Carson, and Mitch Snyder, to name a few whose work fuelled societal upheavals that left numberless victims in their wakes was conducted unethically or just plain made up.
Speaking of heroes, the left sure do love their “martyred” criminals, don’t they? Turns out that contrary to popular belief, Alger Hiss was guilty. The Rosenbergs were guilty.
Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty too.
Yeah. I remember when I came to this realization maybe 30 years ago. It was very shocking. Assuming the truth of all this can someday be written, which is anybody’s guess, it will tell a story of how the spread of popular media somehow made it possible to propagate what are essentially politically motivated lies. I reckon Science is maybe 25 percent true and everything else, perhaps 10 percent.