McGowan: A New Pope
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. In the last 20 years of teaching business ethics, I asked my students to read Pope Leo XIII’s essay, “Rerum Novarum” (On the New Things). If they did the reading, they encountered ideas from John Locke and Adam Smith. Therefore, that the new pope chose to be named Pope Leo XIV bodes well, Read the full article…
Gough: A Cover-Up of a Cover-Up
By Kyle Gough To write “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson conducted what is perhaps the most pertinent investigation in the American political theater since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal. But unlike Woodward and Bernstein, who exposed President Nixon’s Read the full article…
The Outstater
Yo-Yoing: It’s Coming Back THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I expect to hear this year: An elementary school in my town has begun a yo-yo club. Those of you in my generation will remember that every summer the yo-yo professional (18-year-olds primarily) would come to town. These pimple-faced teen-agers were celebrities to us. They were actually paid to Read the full article…
The Outstater
Racism: The Rawest of Politics NO AMERICAN should be denied employment or property because of the color of his skin, the modern dictum reads, unless he is white. The exception was explained recently by Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago. The mayor, as a matter of official policy, says he favors blacks over whites for municipal positions and for contractural awards. Read the full article…
Franke: Pete Rose
by Mark Franke Last week I shocked my wife. I changed my mind. About baseball, of all things. Specifically, I changed my mind about Pete Rose’s status as ineligible for election to the baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. I should admit that I hadn’t given a whole lot of thought to it. My inclination Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Generation’s Mea Culpa BEFORE WE GET TOO OLD and before our ChatGBT assistants go woke, we should put together a comprehensive list of the stupid ideas held by our generation, particularly the really, really stupid ones to which we have clung long past the point we should have known better. I’ll start. 1. That Charles Darwin explained why we are here — We continued the Read the full article…
