The Outstater
Writing for ‘Clicks’ OUR BOOK REVIEWER Mark Franke has written one of his customarily insightful essays, this one on “the end of reading.” I commend it to your attention here. Franke cites a disturbing statistic: less than 50 percent of adults read a single book in 2022. Although I have no statistics, let me offer a corollary Read the full article…
Franke: ‘The End of Reading’
by Mark Franke “The End of Reading Is Here” was the title of an essay link I received in my email from The Atlantic magazine. I would have expected this to be written by a whiny old curmudgeon like me or a librarian worried about her job or even by a retired language arts teacher like my Read the full article…
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America: An Idea or Just a Place? THERE IS A DEBATE swirling around the candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for governor in neighboring Ohio. It is whether America is an idea or just a place. We can resolve it right here. “America isn’t a place, it’s an idea.” Vivek Ramaswamy, July 1, 2021 First, Read the full article…
McGowan: Where Are the Men?
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. When I taught business ethics at Butler (1993-2018), Butler was consistently over 60 percent female, once hitting a 65+ percent female population. Inasmuch as any applied ethics course must deal with “real world” data, the data were given to students when we addressed affirmative action policies. That triggered several of my male students to visit my Read the full article…
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Our Government Grocery Store WE DON’T UNDERSTAND the concern over New York City’s government grocery stores. It is said they are economically impossible, that is, you cannot price groceries at a 30 percent discount and somehow manage the 1-3 percent profit margins that characterize the industry. But we have our own government grocery store in Read the full article…
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Indiana’s Law School ‘Quotas’ CALL US SILLY but we had assumed that Indiana applicants, academic credentials being equal, would have priority at the tax-supported Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. We were wrong. Some time ago we asked an adjunct scholar of the foundation, at the time a member of the law school’s admissions committee, to review the school’s policies Read the full article…
