Washington Monuments Falling Down, Falling Down ...

We are enjoying, or suffering, an epoch of the toppling of statues. Now consider the recent demand for the "contextualization" (meaning the embedding of critical plaques) on, among others, the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial. What's really going on?

It will come as a surprise to some, especially anti-big-government libertarians and my fellow paleoconservatives, that Washington, D.C., was abolished … 150 years ago. Yet its ghost persists. This persistence would not have surprised Ronald Reagan (whose name still adorns, however temporarily, the main airport serving our nation's capital.) Reagan, in...