Latest Essays
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Franke: College Woes
Read more: Franke: College Woesby Mark Franke Lately, Cornell University has been getting a lot of press of the kind it really doesn’t want. What may have been missed in all these headlines is a news article several weeks ago about Cornell’s releasing a…
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Watts: The New ‘Consent-based’ Rules of Sex
Read more: Watts: The New ‘Consent-based’ Rules of Sexby Tyler Watts, Ph.D. Several years ago I was teaching at a small Christian college in a conservative corner of a red southern state. All faculty were required to attend a Title IX training session regarding sex-based discrimination and related…
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McGowan: Hooray for Historical Markers
Read more: McGowan: Hooray for Historical Markersby Richard McGowan, Ph.D I traveled back to my childhood hometown, Shoreham, New York, for the Fourth of July celebrations this year. From the town’s western border, the Long Island Sound, I could — and did — use my cell phone…
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The Downtown Vision Thing
Read more: The Downtown Vision ThingPotemkin village, noun: an impressive facade designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition. The promise of downtown redevelopment has a lot to do with advancing political narratives, plus selling overpriced consultation, depressed real estate and tons and tons of rebar and concrete.…
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‘Hometown’ Politicians
Read more: ‘Hometown’ PoliticiansWe welcome this week’s debate over which of the candidates for Secretary of State is the truest Hoosier. It allows us to address our concern that Indiana politicians have for some time been expatriating after building careers on the backs of Indiana voters and collecting…


