Commentary Columbus Day is a perfect occasion to celebrate perhaps the greatest explorer of all time, Christopher Columbus. Columbus not only discovered a new continent, he also opened the way for the Westernization of North and South America, he ensured the dominance of Western civilization from the 16th century to the present, and he inaugurated an era that brought the blessings of freedom and enlightenment to people across the world that had no way to achieve those things for themselves. In short, Columbus is the architect of the modern world. I realize what fighting words these are in today’s era of political correctness and identity politics. I understand that Columbus today is considered, at least in woke quarters, to be a very bad guy, perhaps even a genocidal maniac who, along with his successors, essentially wiped out large segments of the Native American population. From Venezuela to America, left-wing activists …