Looking back on his experience as an inmate in the Nazi camps, the narrator of Imre Kertész's Fateless recalls hearing a teacher say, "We learn for life, not school."  In that case, he reflects, "I ought to have been learning all along exclusively about Auschwitz."  Today we have no excuse for such neglect.  Who has not heard of the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao? But it seems the American elite was not taught (or did not care to learn) how such men were able to bring formerly free peoples under the yoke of totalitarianism in the first place.  What else but deplorable ignorance could explain the widespread capitulation of political leaders at every level to violent mobs animated, as Daniel Mahoney observes, by revolutionary nihilism?  Or the way institutions across the board, including political parties, universities, the media, entertainment, and professional sports, have rushed to support Black...(Read Full Article)