Prof Orwin is full of manure. He's a devoted follower of Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom. The Confederacy lost. Those statues were erected in the 1890s, 1920s and 1950s to assert White Supremacy over African-Americans. I'm with Arnold Schartzenegger who posted a video denouncing the violence and all these idols to the failed Confederacy. Honestly, a historian should know better. The Civil War was about preserving slavery and racism. But then Orwin has followed that line of thinkers who don't much like Liberal Democracy and long for the days of a Class System where certain people know their place and those who are our betters rule by decree.