A ‘Great Man’ is Not Necessarily a Good Man

Back in the 1980s, Louis Farrakhan — the leader of the Nation of Islam — was cancelled for calling Hitler a ‘great man’. The word ‘great’, which is often used synonymously with ‘good’, sounds like a positive description — but is it? Is a ‘Great Man’ a good man?

Farrakhan later clarified his comment in an interview with Phil Donahue (which I have clipped below). ‘Hitler’, he said, was ‘no…