Hate and ignorance at Vanderbilt Just before Thanksgiving, the editor of the Nashville newspaper, The Tennessean, and Vanderbilt University Professor Jonathan Farley teamed up to commit a hate crime. Farley wrote, and the Tennessean published, an article that attacked the United Daughters of the Confederacy for what Farley calls "honoring traitors." Farley's article brims with hatred of Confederate Army soldiers and their descendants. Farley wrote: "Every Confederate soldier, by the mores of his age and ours, deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows. ... Indeed, the...