The latest issue of The Economist magazine, a center-right publication that claims a weekly readership of 1.5 million, calls for New Orleans to remove its Battle of Liberty Place monument, as well as statues of famous Confederates. The article takes aim at divisive statuary in general, but it names the Liberty Place obelisk as a concrete example of a monument that merits no public support. "When public land and resources are used in a way that causes widespread offence, as preserving these state-sponsored tributes does, the authorities should have a good reason for doing so. In (the case of Liberty...