Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele, author of “Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country,” reacted to anti-Trump comments made by Michael Eric Dyson earlier in the week.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will also deliver a presentation and sign books. Rice recently published Democracy: Stories From the Long Road to Freedom.

What separates humans from other species, the late William F. Buckley Jr. admonished a sanctimonious college student in his office 40 years ago, “is the capacity to make distinctions.” With a White House as relentlessly repulsive as this one is and significant elements of American society willing to indulge conduct reminiscent of 1930’s fascists, it is perhaps a bad time to expect that people will make distinctions, and the capacity of some people to do so has eroded badly.

Liberals sell innocence from America’s past. If bigotry is pronounced dead, the racket is over.