Good article and nothing with which I disagree. I recommend it but I doubt many of our younger people would bother taking the time or read it or compare/contrast it with what they should already know.
All of us (and particularly those under 30 years old) have developed very short attention spans. If it can't be captured on a Google search, a cell phone screen, a Youtube clip, a meme, or Twitter blast, then it falls under the heading of "too much work/I can't be bothered." We also fall into the traps of only reading/watching things with which we agree which is anathema to the development of critical thinking or even [gasp] adapting our views. Liberal or conservative, we all tend to drink our own bath water.
In short, those who would destroy monuments are condemned to repeat history that they've never bothered to truly study. I guess it's too much effort to critically examine Russia from 1917 to 1992; China in the 1940s and 1950s, Cambodia in the 1970s, and Germany in the 1930s. Those are all similar playbooks that have failed so spectacularly leaving nothing but a trail of destruction and human misery in their wake.
When I attended the US Army War College in 1997-1998, I listened to a lecture by George Will and he said [paraphrased] "there are those who will tell us that the only reason communism has never worked anywhere is that the right people have never been in charge." Put another way, I don't have to have syphillis to know I don't want it.
In case anyone is interested in reading the article:
https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/18/in-defense-of-the-monuments/