by Ty Davison | Mar 28, 2026 | News & Commentary
You’re Not Protesting Like Dr. King: The core principle of the Civil Rights Movement was voluntary conversion, never any compulsion or arm-twisting. Its protests were mounted as an appeal to the conscience and goodwill of both the protest target and the wider public....
by Ty Davison | Oct 8, 2025 | News & Commentary
Conservative justices reveal their distrust of medical expertise on LGBTQ+ issues | CNN Politics: For the second time this year in a major controversy over treatment for LGBTQ youths, Supreme Court justices revealed their reluctance to accept a medical consensus. This...
by Ty Davison | Sep 5, 2025 | News & Commentary
Anthropic tells US judge it will pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action | CNN Business: Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the...
by Ty Davison | Aug 21, 2025 | News & Commentary
Pro-Palestinian protests cut short Wyden’s southern Oregon town hall – oregonlive.com: A town hall hosted by Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden was cut short Monday in southern Oregon after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the event. Videos posted on TikTok show...
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...
