Reparations for slavery have been in the news of late, obviously because no issues less than 158 years old confront the nation.
Randall Robinson’s classic The Debt is selling well again on Amazon, and cities from Evanston, Ill., to Providence, R.I., are considering local programs of racial reparations. Across the aisle, Daily Wire firebrand Matt Walsh recently made headlines — at one point citing moi — for arguing that black Americans are likely not worse off today than we would be had our ancestors remained in Africa and, more broadly, that historical revisionism of any kind is foolish.
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