by Ty Davison | Jul 25, 2020 | News & Commentary
Even repugnant ideas—maybe especially repugnant ideas—must be able to be articulated. Emily Yoffe’s A Taxonomy of Fear: Confronted with words, ideas, or decisions they dislike, a growing number of people are asserting that they are in danger of...
by Ty Davison | Jun 27, 2020 | News & Commentary
Could see this coming from a mile away. UW-Madison students call for removal of Lincoln statue: After protesters tore down two statues at the state capitol, attention is now turning to the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The...
by Ty Davison | Jun 23, 2020 | News & Commentary
It you don’t say what you mean, you don’t mean what you say. Vallejo, California cut their police force from 150 to 80. Nearly one-third of the city’s homicides since 2012 have been by committed by police. Vallejo, California defunded its...
by Ty Davison | Jun 20, 2020 | News & Commentary
The term justice needs no modifier. Indeed if you give it one, that’s no longer what it is. Following on the heels of statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson being torn down, now vandals have toppled a statue of Union General Ulysses S....
by Ty Davison | Jun 12, 2020 | News & Commentary
I might like it aesthetically, but the Confederate flag belongs in the dustbin of history, a traitorous symbol of a rightly destroyed rebellion. You know that when even NASCAR has come around to my way of thinking, big changes are afoot. Likewise, I’m very much in...
