Pulling Down Confederate Statues Does Nothing to Change Society

In these very - I mean very -- weird times of ours, few phenomena appear weirder than what I would describe as the mania for pulling down or otherwise removing memorials to dead Confederates. New Orleans has done it. My own University of Texas has done it. Dallas now talks of doing it, as my respected onetime colleague at The News, James Ragland, informs us.I feel the urgent need to inquire of the iconoclasts, the breakers of images: Why? To what purpose? With what sensible aim in view?  Continue reading...