Tag: public monuments

• Compensatory Sainthood

  We fund statues, celebrate heroes, and ignore the truth. Why societies create saints—and what it costs when the myth collapses.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 19, 2026

  Politics, Psychology, Religion

  American history, cancel culture, Cesar Chavez, civil rights movement, cultural icons, ethics and society, groupthink, hero worship, historical revisionism, institutional abuse, labor movement, leadership accountability, Martin Luther King Jr, media narratives, moral hypocrisy, myth making, political commentary, political myths, power and corruption, public monuments, public trust, secular sainthood, social justice, social psychology