Free Hawaii! One particularly annoying aspect of “Third Wav” politics is its proponents’ penchant for symbolic, feel-your-pain apologies. Tony Blair offered one to the Irish for Britain’s inaction during the Potato Famine; Bill Clinton delivered another to black Americans for slavery. Surely no good can come from such empty sentimentalism. Or can it? In 1993,...

The parents of Amy Biehl, the 26-year-old Fulbright Scholar who was hacked to death by black militants in South Africa in 1993, are perfect examples of liberals as defined by Thomas Fleming: people who would refuse to take their own side in an argument. Ms. Biehl, a Stanford graduate researching women’s rights and helping to...