"We Are Our History--Don't Forget It"

Writing, staggeringly enough, in the L.A. Times, David Gelernter looks at how America’s culture war is impacting our kids’ knowledge of history–or lack thereof:

I was amazed to hear about teenagers who don’t know Fact 1 about the Vietnam War draft. But I have met college students who have never heard of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge