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by James A. Bacon

In 1995 James W. Loewen wrote a provocatively titled volume, Lies My Teacher Told Me, which proffered leftist interpretations of topics that allegedly had been sanitized from American history books. Two decades later, Wilfred Reilly has put his own spin on Loewen’s book title and American history in Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

Reilly could have just as well have called the book Lies My Leftist College Professor Told Me, for every one of the narrative myths he debunks originated in academe and flourish there today. Here is a sampling:

Lie #1: Brutal “True” Slavery Was Virtually Unique to America and the West;

Lie #3: Native Americans Were Peaceful People Who Spent All Day in Dancing;

Lie #6: European Colonialism Was — Empirically — a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Thing;

#10: Bonus Lie: The Continuing Oppression Narrative.

For anyone fed up with the woke mind virus, Reilly’s books — which include Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About, and Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War — are a joy to read.

I expect his speech, hosted by The Jefferson Council and the Young Americans for Freedom December 5, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the University of Virginia, to be equally entertaining. The title: “Narrative vs Reality – from UVA to the USA and Beyond.”  (To register click here.)

Warning: Lefties have been trying to sabotage the speech by filling up The Jefferson Council’s Eventbrite registration system with spam registrations. We clean out the fakes every day, and they fill the system back up every day. If you see a message stating that the event has sold out, don’t believe it. At this point in time, there are plenty of seats available.

If you are thwarted in your registration effort, email me, and I’ll take care of it. Send your first name, last name, and the number of tickets you want (up to two) to [email protected]. I’ll get it to the right people.

Reilly, an African-American political science professor at Kentucky State University, has carved out a niche in the conservative media/publishing ecosystem as a debunker of leftist myths. Though jovial in demeanor, he is merciless in dispensing with intellectual nonsense that is grounded in ideology, not fact.

I’m looking forward to what he has to say about the framing of history at UVA and universities generally. I think it’s pretty safe to say he won’t be giving any Monacan land acknowledgements or trashing Thomas Jefferson as a slave-holding rapist. Bacon’s Rebellion readers will be well rewarded for undertaking the trek to Charlottesville to hear one of America’s most entertaining myth busters.