First Things RSS Feed - Dinesh D'Souza https://www.firstthings.com/author/dinesh-dsouza en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:02 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/dinesh-dsouza 60 The Crimes of Christopher Columbus https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/11/the-crimes-of-christopher-columbus https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/11/the-crimes-of-christopher-columbus Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00:00 -0500 Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign alternative to monoculturalism. Historian Peter Stearns insists that the multicultural debate “is between those who think there are special marvelous features about the Western tradition that students should be exposed to, and others who feel it’s much more important for students to have a sense of the way the larger world has developed.” This is the unmistakable appeal of multiculturalism: it is obviously better to study many cultures rather than a single culture, to have diverse points of view rather than a single one.

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