Book Review of "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me" by Dr. Wilfred Reilly

By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret
STARRS Board of Advisors

Not surprising to those familiar with his previous work, Dr. Wilfred Reilly has written yet another brilliant book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

Following in the tradition of his earlier books, Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War and Taboo: Ten Facts You Can’t Talk About, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me is a detailed and well documented evisceration of popular liberal myths of today.

These distortions or even re-writing of our history is promoted by academia, Hollywood, liberals in general and their acolytes in the press, social media, and the government itself whose institutions are largely controlled by the left.

Liberal lies are used by the left to control the narrative and as a tool to fundamentally change America into something our founding fathers would not recognize.

Our founders were students of history with a deep knowledge of past forms of government. For this reason, they created a new and unique constitutional Republic, a unique form not seen before. It has proved to be more stable and provides more freedom than past forms of government.

Liberals want to change all of that into their vision of utopia, so they have to lie to the American people about our actual history.

For a book exploring serious, even dark subjects of both historical and contemporary times, it is eminently readable and written in its usual cogent, logical, and exquisitely documented fashion.

Dr. Reilly has a way with words and conveys complex ideas in simple to understand and clever ways. It has touches of humor, and brief reflections of his own mixed racial and cultural background.

The book contains ten chapters covering the lies perpetuated by liberals through most of today’s cultural institutions.

He starts by debunking slavery being uniquely evil as practiced by America and the West. He takes a unique look at the role of hippies, the sexual revolution, and our nation’s Viet Nam experience that was not at all like what liberals desperately want the rest of America to believe today.

The book includes a clear look at the “Red Scare” for what it really was, as the actual history well documents communist infiltration of the US government even at some of the highest levels.

It includes an accurate history of the Three-Fifths compromise at our founding as being a necessary step towards independence and something that served as the foundation for the elimination of slavery.

There is an objective look at the good and bad of colonialism and proof that Native Americans were not the noble savages that some would like to pretend they were.

It also contains a stern rejection of wishy-washy liberal thinking regarding our use of nukes to end the war with Japan providing ample proof that the use of those weapons hastened the war’s end and most likely resulted in far fewer deaths than would have been the case had the US needed to invade Japan.

In the chapter on the myth of “white flight”, Dr. Reilly explains how the southern states became conservative (hint: it wasn’t racism).

In his concluding chapter he completely debunks the modern “oppression” narrative regarding America’s black citizens.

For every assertion he makes, Dr. Reilly backs it up with cold, clear facts from his research and citing data-based findings that eviscerate liberal lies and talking points.

His research proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that much of today’s division between the right and the left is built on a foundation of lies to fool our youth and Americans in general into thinking, America was evil, is evil now, and should be condemned.

The actual truth is much more complex and even more positive than the left would have you to believe.

While there are elements of truth in the lies liberals tell, the real story, real history is there for you to discover despite what the liberals want to peddle.

A great start would be to read this book and recommend it to your family and friends. They will thank you.

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Brent Ramsey is a retired Naval Officer. He has written extensively on matters related to the Navy and in recent years on the adverse impact politics is having on the readiness of our military. His writing has been featured in Real Clear Defense, American Thinker, the Patriot Post, and Armed Forces Press.

Book Description:

A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America’s school curricula.

In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.

But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education.

Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down.

Among the popular lies he debunks:

“The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies”
“Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing”
“European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing”
“The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican”
“The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless”

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.

Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.