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The Mighty Return of Columbus Day

The Mighty Return of Columbus Day
The statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., in a file photo. The statue was dedicated to Columbus on June 8, 1912. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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This weekend, gleeful people all around are wishing each other a happy Columbus Day. What a wonderful thing it is. Not even the schools can lecture students that it is really “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” because it is no longer that. It is back to being the revered day it always was, a day celebrating the glorious risk-taking and vision it took for the old world to discover the new.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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