ALAN HENDERSON ON the Columbus Quincentennial that never was. “To those leftists who regard the West as history’s worst aggressor, Indigenous People’s Day Columbus Day informally starts a sort of reverse Lenten season, a time of extra weeping and gnashing of teeth concluding with the sorrow of Conquest Day Thanksgiving. Those sorts refuse to view history as a mixed bag, that events that don’t go their way might have some upsides. In 1992 their one consolation was to see a Commie Guatemalan Mayan awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I doubt the timing was an accident.”