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By Douglas Blair ~

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

While it’s almost become cliché at this point to refer to the radical left’s antics using the language of George Orwell’s “1984,” the left’s ongoing assault against honest and accurate history makes Orwell’s tale look quaint in comparison.

The left would rather make up an alternate history than face the reality that the past doesn’t fit their desires. Pictured: Medieval warriors. (Photo: Getty Images)

A recent example of the leftist war on history concerns a book called the “The Bright Ages” and the ensuing kerfuffle over race in the medieval period.

The book reframes the collective understanding of the medieval period from the 400s to the 1400s as a dark and violent time and highlights the stories of nonwhite minorities and women in Europe, attempting to frame them in…