Historical negationism is particularly ominous amid the convergence on campuses of socialist nostalgia, anti-colonial fervor, and tactical alliances with Islamist movements. AdvertisementThe historical record is unequivocal, yet increasingly contested in Western academia. Forced collectivism does not fail for lack of noble intent; it fails because it denies human nature—individual agency, incentives, the information-processing power of markets, the necessity of pluralism. For the sake of humanity and civilization, the victims of socialism and radical Islam demand remembrance. If the young continue to romanticize collectivism, the human sacrifices will not remain confined to dusty history books.