Commentary Ever since Socrates pestered his interlocutors with questions they couldn’t answer, all the best people have told us that questions are more important than answers. So I thought I would try a column consisting mostly of questions. Socrates wanted to know things like “What is Virtue?” “What is knowledge?” “What is love?” My questions are more pedestrian but no less miscellaneous. And unlike the showstoppers Socrates proffered, they are, most of them, more easily answerable—which is not to say that we should expect the answers anytime soon. For example, I would like to know who shot Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed Vet and Trump supporter who was shot at the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. We know that it was a Capitol Hill police officer, but the authorities will not release his name. Why? Why was it OK for a police officer to kill an unarmed women …
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