The Outstater
Reality Makes a Comeback WE ARE SUSTAINED by the hope there will be a day when reality overcomes romance in guiding our civic affairs. That is, the romantic notion that everyone can live in harmony and abundance regardless of culture, system or effort will eventually be modified by the need for secure borders, safe streets and running water. Joe Read the full article…
Franke: The Violently Selfish Campus
by Mark Franke “People talk about the divide in this country as though we were standing on opposite sides of a chasm. When the reality is that we are standing over the chasm, as if on a bridge. You’re never going to get everyone to cross to one side or the other. Some people can’t Read the full article…
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Reagan’s Unmatched Moxie BEING OLD, I spend considerable time correcting facile modern accounts of long-ago events that I happened to have witnessed. They rarely check out, as George Orwell so aptly warned, the truth having been pushed down the memory hole. For example, the Vietnam War was not a futile exercise in American hubris but rather a heroic effort that convinced (for Read the full article…
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Do You Trust Your University? WE DON’T HAVE opinion surveys measuring the trust Hoosiers have in their particular state universities. My guess is that after the spring pro-Hamas encampments the percentage that still think that Indiana University, for example, is doing a decent job is around 10 percent, or roughly the number of people wandering around cognitively disabled Read the full article…
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Eco-Devo: The Missing Studies THE GOOD NEWS is that the national media is losing its clout. The bad news is that so is the local media. Here is Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal on our newly acquired hype immunity: “Older voters a decade or two ago assumed anything on a screen had the authority of the evening Read the full article…
Gaski: Islamophobia or Propaganda?
by John Gaski, Ph.D. What does the word “Islamophobia” mean? What is its formal definition? You can take your time to answer. Actually, this is an easy question because there is more than one correct answer. In the meantime, a diversion: When was the first time you ever heard of the word “Islamophobia,” as best you can remember? Other than Read the full article…
