Forget Statues, Columbus Is Still the Most Consequential Sailor Ever

How a Seafaring-Scholar From Florida Confirmed Columbus as 'The Great Navigator'

Florida sailor Douglas T. Peck sailed Columbus’s route across the Atlantic Ocean and wrote the book on the Genoan captain’s navigational acumen. The iconoclastic seafarer died in 2014.

We’ve come to that time of year again. Columbus Day has morphed into Columbus-bashing day, a celebration of self by indoctrinated individuals signalling virtue. As I write…