by Ty Davison | Dec 19, 2025 | News & Commentary
Los Angeles Rams’ Puka Nacua apologizes for antisemitic gesture, said he was unaware of offensive meaning | CNN: Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua has apologized for performing a gesture that plays upon antisemitic tropes on an internet livestream. “I had no idea...
by Ty Davison | May 16, 2025 | News & Commentary
I am a believer in speaker-centered communication, which is based in traditional rhetorical theory rooted in Aristotelian ethos/logos/pathos, Enlightenment liberalism, and First Amendment jurisprudence. I am dismayed that this view has fallen from favor in recent...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Helping Amber Heard Was Just the Start of the ACLU’s Problems – The Atlantic: In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s...
by Ty Davison | Oct 2, 2020 | Essays
[This essay was also crossposted to Facebook on October 2, 2020.] If your response to the news that President Trump has COVID-19 was “it’s a hoax” then this essay is directed to you. Given all the gaslighting and lying from the president, skepticism...
by Ty Davison | Aug 10, 2018 | News & Commentary
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racismTime to talk about what unites us.
