An earnest but unsatisfying rebuttal of the New York Times’ tendentious ‘1619 Project’. The newspaper’s polemic, which contends American society and politics are premised on white supremacy dating to a 17th-century slave-trade ship, is founded on disputatious scholarship and pointed at partisan ends (i.e., ‘reparations’) rather than pursuit of knowledge – separating the publication from Walter Duranty’s equally duplicitous reporting on the Communist revolution. The main tenets – a) the Civil War was fought to protect slaveowners against Abolition, b) Lincoln was a white separatist, c) blacks fought slavery alone, d) the slave plantation was the foundation of capitalism, and e) US history is characterized by white supremacy – are readily dismissed; but 1619 is a symptom and 1620 (named for the Mayflower compact, a true founding) leaves treating the cause of others.