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…
The Outstater
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…
The Outstater
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…
Book Review: ‘The Coming Storm’
by Mark Franke If you want to get depressed or even a tad frightened, read “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflicts, and Warnings from History” (Henry Holt and Company 2026, 219 pages plus notes, $21 hardcover at Amazon) by Yale professor Odd Arne Westad. The book is an analysis of great power politics in the 21st century Read the full article…
Eichenberger: The Entitlement Trap
by Dan Eichenberger M.D. In 2025, the U.S. federal government is projected to spend around $7 trillion — roughly 23 percent of the nation’s entire economic output. More than half of that spending goes to mandatory “entitlement” programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other benefits. Social Security alone accounts for about 22 percent of Read the full article…
Keating: South Bend Utility Assistance
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. For low-income households, putting food on the table is the highest priority-and rightly so. Yet electricity, water, heating and telephone bills strongly increase the stress levels of both low- and middle-income households. This month, approximately 41,500 households received a letter this from the South Bend Mayor describing the City’s Utility Read the full article…
