Mona Charen's article, "Giving Thanks for Genocide," laments "the current pedagogical fashion is to distort American history into something like a war crime." She draws on Michael Medved's new book, The 10 Big Lies About America, in setting the record straight.
Me: This anti-American phenomenon promotes national suicide, and it has been doing so for years. It now takes determination (and often extra-curricular specialized reading) for a young person to retain -- or attain -- a positive opinion of the United States.
Update - Mark Steyn offers a few choice comments on a related subject, "warts-only education." Excerpt:
Teaching only the warts is a terrible thing to do to young children. At its extreme it leads to those British Taliban captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan: Subjects of the Crown who'd been raised in English schools and taught only that the country to which they owed their nominal allegiance was the source of all the racism, oppression, colonialism, and imperialism in the world. Why be surprised that a proportion of the alumni of such a system would look elsewhere for their sense of identity?
But, even in its more benign form, warts-only education leaves a big hole where one's cultural inheritance should be.