by Ty Davison | Feb 24, 2023 | News & Commentary
The Fingerprints in the Paint I had a client once who was in ancient coins and antiquities. Forgery was an enormous problem in those fields as well.
by Ty Davison | Feb 20, 2023 | News & Commentary
Roald Dahl book changes spark censorship spat The news that changes have been made to the works of best-selling children’s author Roald Dahl has been met with anger from leading writers, including Booker prizewinner Salman Rushdie, who branded the changes...
by Ty Davison | Aug 21, 2020 | News & Commentary
The Joy of Appropriation – Persuasion: I want to focus here on the kind of case that is now most frequently derided as “problematic”: freely adopting aspects of another culture simply because one values them as crystallizations of human excellence....
by Ty Davison | Mar 15, 2003 | News & Commentary
Author Barry Glassner tries to make the case in The Culture of Fear that Americans are afraid of the wrong things. Although I don’t think he hits all his points square on, he’s far more right than wrong. For the most part, Glassner correctly blames media...
by Ty Davison | Mar 15, 2003 | News & Commentary
Footloose is the spring musical at Sprague, and along with my parents we took in a showing last night. I thought it was a mixed bag thanks mostly to the questionable decision to cast adults in some of the lead roles. This isn’t community theatre, it’s a...
