For at least the last forty years, Columbus has been disingenuously vilified in books such as Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, and this calumny has been repeated by many American academics. For example, in 2020, after the statue of Columbus was toppled outside Minnesota’s capitol, Governor Walz wrote, “As a former social studies teacher, I taught my students that many Minnesotans look at that statue and see a history of genocide.” (Note: for an exposé of