Dear Tom Cotton: There Are No Necessary Evils, Only Convenient Ones.

In this video, Mr. Watson explores Tom Cotton's assertion that the founders believed slavery was a "necessary evil" in their time, and that should contextualize the practice in studies of American history. Mr Watson provides a different, nuanced view that affirms the necessity of historical context without acceding to philosophical mediocirty by embracing the false dichotomy of the "lesser of two evils."

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