by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 8, 1999

Anyone raised in Catholic schools at mid-century often heard the term “invincible ignorance.” Nuns used it to describe those benighted souls who lacked mental competence to grasp the truth. Whenever I read a column by Ed Koch, the old phrase comes to mind.

Koch recently cited as conclusive proof of my malevolence that I defend the America First Committee — an organization, says Ed, “that supported Hitler and the Nazis in 1941.”