On Monday night, Chief of Staff John Kelly offered what may be the official White House position on historiography. “I think we make a mistake as a society ... when we take what is today accepted as right and wrong and go back 100, 200, or 300 years or more and say what Christopher Columbus did was wrong,” Kelly told Laura Ingraham in an interview on Fox News. “Five hundred years later ... it’s inconceivable to me that you would take what we know now and apply it then.