“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” — Chinese proverb WE ARE NEARING the season for high-school reunions. Could one class hold a valuable secret for upcoming generations? My nominee would be the class of 1963, those born at the…

by Mark Franke What is it about us Americans and our hurry to move on to the next thing? By Christmas night the TV commercials are changing over to the next retail season and by New Year’s Day, the advertising…

A Defense of ALPR Cameras THERE’S A BIG DIFFERENCE between the automated corner camera and the venerable corner policeman, an institution long recognized for accelerating investigations, raising crime clearance rates, locating missing people, reducing auto theft and generally keeping our streets…

by Dan Eichenberger M.D. The word “meritocracy” was born as an insult. In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young published The Rise of the Meritocracy, a dystopian satire warning that a society ruled by intelligence and effort would create a new, more arrogant…

Public ‘Service’ Understood I’M HAVING TROUBLE sorting out the Andy Zay settlement this week. Zay, a former state senator, describes himself as a “public servant.” As commissioner of the Indiana Utilities, though, he displeased his boss the governor and was fired, somewhat…