Ross Douthat: The pandemic’s gift to radicalism

This past week, the San Francisco School Board of Education voted 6-1 to proceed with a plan to rename 44 of the city’s currently shuttered schools, wiping away notables like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, Robert Louis Stevenson and even Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, for various forms of cooperation with white supremacy and patriarchy.After the vote, I spent some time reading the Google spreadsheet helpfully compiled by the renaming effort, which li